Jeremiah 40:2

New English Translation

The captain of the royal guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, “The Lord your God threatened this place with this disaster.

Cross References

Jeremiah 11:17

For though I, the Lord who rules over all, planted you in the land, I now decree that disaster will come on you because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal.”

Jeremiah 50:7

All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors trusted.’

Jeremiah 52:16

But he left behind some of the poor and gave them fields and vineyards.

Leviticus 26:14

“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments –

Deuteronomy 28:15

“But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

Deuteronomy 31:17

At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 32:19

But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.