Jeremiah 40:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now look, I have just released you today from the fetters on your hands. If you wish to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take good care of you, but if you do not wish to come with me to Babylon, you need not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

Cross References

Genesis 13:9

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

Genesis 20:15

Abimelech said, “My land is before you; settle where it pleases you.”

Genesis 44:21

Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, so that I may set my eyes on him.’

Genesis 47:6

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land; let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know that there are capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

Esther 3:11

The king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, and the people as well, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

Jeremiah 37:14

And Jeremiah said, “That is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him and arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;