Jeremiah 40:4

New International Version

But today I am freeing you from the chains on your wrists. Come with me to Babylon, if you like, and I will look after you; but if you do not want to, then don’t come. Look, the whole country lies before you; go wherever you please.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:9

Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”

Genesis 20:15

And Abimelek said, “My land is before you; live wherever you like.”

Genesis 44:21

“Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.’

Genesis 47:6

and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

Esther 3:11

“Keep the money,” the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”

Jeremiah 37:14

“That’s not true!” Jeremiah said. “I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.