Jeremiah 44:28

New International Reader's Version

Some will not be killed. They will return to Judah from Egypt. But they will be very few. Then all the people of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know the truth. They will know whether what I say or what they say will come true.

Cross References

Psalm 33:11

But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever. What he wants to do will last for all time.

Isaiah 10:19

It will be like the trees of their forests. So few of them will be left standing that even a child could count them.

Isaiah 10:22

Israel, your people might be as many as the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will return. The Lord has handed down a death sentence. He will destroy his people. What he does is right.

Jeremiah 42:17

In fact, that will happen to all those who go and make their homes in Egypt. All of them will die of war, hunger and plague. Not one of them will live. None of them will escape the trouble I will bring on them.’

Jeremiah 44:13

I will use war, hunger and plague to punish the Jews who live in Egypt. I punished Jerusalem in the same way.

Jeremiah 44:14

None of the people of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape. Not one of them will live to return to Judah. They long to return and live there. But only a few will escape from Egypt and go back.”

Jeremiah 44:29

“ ‘I will give you a sign that I will punish you in this place,’ announces the Lord. ‘Then you can be sure that my warnings of harm against you will come true.’

Jeremiah 51:50

You who have not been killed in the war against Babylon, leave! Do not wait! In a land far away remember me. And think about Jerusalem.”

Ezekiel 6:8

“ ‘ “But I will spare some of you. Some will escape from being killed by swords. You will be scattered among other lands and nations.

Zechariah 1:6

I commanded my servants the prophets what to say. I told them what I planned to do. But your people refused to obey me. So I had to punish them. “Then they had a change of heart. They said, ‘The Lord who rules over all has punished us because of how we have lived. He was fair and right to do that. He has done to us just what he decided to do.’ ”

Numbers 14:41

But Moses said, “Why aren’t you obeying the Lord’s command? You won’t succeed.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away. But my words will never pass away.