1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,[ † ]Exodus 14:2Jeremiah 46:14Jeremiah 43:7Ezekiel 30:18Isaiah 19:13Jeremiah 2:16Ezekiel 30:13-16Hosea 9:6Isaiah 11:11Ezekiel 29:14Ezekiel 30:14 2Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,[ † ]Isaiah 6:11Jeremiah 4:7Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 34:22Micah 3:12 3because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.[ † ]Jeremiah 19:4Deuteronomy 13:6Deuteronomy 32:17 4Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them , saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:15Jeremiah 7:25Jeremiah 25:4Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 29:19Zechariah 7:7 5But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. 6Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day. 7Therefore now thus saith the Lord , the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;[ † ]Numbers 16:38Jeremiah 7:19Ezekiel 33:11Habakkuk 2:10 8in that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?[ † ]2 Kings 17:15-17Jeremiah 25:6-7Jeremiah 44:31 Corinthians 10:21-221 Kings 9:7-82 Chronicles 7:20Jeremiah 42:18 9Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:12Jeremiah 6:15Jeremiah 8:12Daniel 5:22Proverbs 28:14
11Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.[ † ]Leviticus 17:10Leviticus 20:5-6Jeremiah 21:10Amos 9:4 12And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.[ † ]Jeremiah 42:15-17, 22Isaiah 65:15Jeremiah 42:18 13For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:[ † ]Jeremiah 43:11
14so that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.[ † ]Jeremiah 22:26-27Isaiah 4:2Isaiah 10:20Jeremiah 44:28Romans 9:27
15Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord , we will not hearken unto thee.[ † ]Jeremiah 6:16 17But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.[ † ]Numbers 30:12Deuteronomy 23:23Judges 11:362 Kings 17:16Jeremiah 7:18 18But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things , and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?[ † ]Jeremiah 7:18
20Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, 21The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and came it not into his mind? 22So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.[ † ]Jeremiah 25:11-18, 38 23Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the Lord , and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord , nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.[ † ]1 Kings 9:9Nehemiah 13:18Jeremiah 44:2Daniel 9:11-12
24Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the Lord , all Judah that are in the land of Egypt: 25thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. 26Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord , all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord , that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liveth.[ † ]Genesis 22:16Deuteronomy 32:40-41Jeremiah 22:5Amos 6:8Hebrews 6:13Jeremiah 10:6Nehemiah 9:5Psalms 50:16Ezekiel 20:39 27Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.[ † ]Jeremiah 1:10Jeremiah 31:28Ezekiel 7:6 28Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.[ † ]Isaiah 10:19Isaiah 27:12-13 29And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord , that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:[ † ]Psalms 33:11 30thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.[ † ]Jeremiah 46:25-26Ezekiel 29:3Ezekiel 30:212 Kings 25:4-7Jeremiah 39:5