>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/jer/42?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07c2a::c07c2a) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Jeremiah/42.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/jer/42/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Jeremiah, in the land of Judah, delivers God's message to the remnant of Judah, led by Johanan and the captains, cautioning them against fleeing to Egypt and urging them to trust in God's protection where they are. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>The people asked Jeremiah to pray to God and find out what they should do. God told them to stay where they were, but warned them not to go to Egypt or bad things would happen. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The remnant of Judah, led by Johanan and other leaders, asked Jeremiah to pray to God to know what they should do. After ten days, Jeremiah relayed God's message: if they stayed in their land, God would protect and bless them, but if they decided to go to Egypt seeking safety, they would face the dangers they feared, such as war and famine. God warned them that His anger would follow them to Egypt if they disobeyed His command to stay. > >#Gospel/Obedience #Gospel/TrustInGod #Gospel/Prophecy ###### 1 1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near, ###### 2 2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:) ###### 3 3 That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. ###### 4 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you. ###### 5 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us. ###### 6 6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God. ###### 7 7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah. ###### 8 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, ###### 9 9 And said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him; ###### 10 10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. ###### 11 11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. ###### 12 12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. ###### 13 13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God, ###### 14 14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: ###### 15 15 And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; ###### 16 16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die. ###### 17 17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. ###### 18 18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. ###### 19 19 The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day. ###### 20 20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it. ###### 21 21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you. ###### 22 22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.