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Jeremiah 42:20

Jeremiah 42:20 hypocrites H8582 (H8689) hearts H5315 sent H7971 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 saying H559 (H8800) Pray H6419 (H8690) LORD H3068 God H430 LORD H3068 God H430 says H559 (H8799) declare H5046 (H8685) do H6213 (H8804)

For ye - Jeremiah 3:10, Jeremiah 17:10; Psalms 18:44, Psalms 65:3; Ezekiel 14:3-4, Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew 22:15-18, Matthew 22:35; Galatians 6:7

dissembled in your hearts - Heb. have used deceit against your souls, Numbers 16:38; James 1:22

Pray - Jeremiah 42:2

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See also Jeremiah 42:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 42:20. _FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS_] What a most miserable and incorrigible people! Ingratitude, hypocrisy, rebellion, and cruelty seem to have been enthroned in their hearts! An...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS - Or, “ye have led yourselves astray,” i. e., your sending me to ask counsel of God was an act of self-delusion. You felt so sure that God would direct you to go into Egyp...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 42 _ 1. Jeremiah the intercessor (Jeremiah 42:1) _ 2. The answer from Jehovah (Jeremiah 42:7) Jeremiah 42:1. The remnant, the few who were left after the terrible happenings recorded in the

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 42:1 TO JEREMIAH 43:7. THE MIGRATION INTO EGYPT. Jeremiah is asked by the leaders (Jeremiah 42:1 _mg.,_ with LXX) and the people to seek Yahweh's guidance, which they solemnly ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YE DISSEMBLED, &C. None but Jehovah could know this. Compare Jeremiah 41:17; Psalms 139:2. Joh 1:48. John 2:24; John 2:25. HEARTS. souls. H

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. (see introd. note to section) considers Jeremiah 42:15 as wholly an addition, and Jeremiah 42:9 as containing much editorial matter....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _have dealt deceitfully against your own souls_ i.e. _selves_or _lives_; mg. (less well) _in your souls_. It is best (with slight modification of the MT.) to render with LXX "ye have done evil against...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to the section....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1082 DISSIMULATION REPROVED Jeremiah 42:20. 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. _The response of the Lord_ (Jeremiah 42:7-22) TRANSLATION (7) And it came to pass at the end of ten days that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah. (8) And he called Johanan the son of Kareah,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    42:20 souls, (a-8) Or 'led astray your own souls.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S MESSAGE FROM GOD TO JOHANAN 1. Jezaniah] the Azariah of Jeremiah 43:2 (and probably not the Jezaniah of Jeremiah 40:8). 7-22. The people are forbidden to go down to Egypt. Jeremiah had alw...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS] RV 'ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls,'i.e. while persuading yourselves that you are prepared to accept God's decision, all the while nothing but your own...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS... — Looks and whispers betrayed, we may believe, the feelings of the prophet’s hearers. He saw by such outward signs, or he read, as by the intuition of inspiration,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י _הִתְעֵתֶם֮_† בְּ נַפְשֹֽׁותֵיכֶם֒ כִּֽי ־אַתֶּ֞ם שְׁלַחְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIV THE DESCENT INTO EGYPT Jeremiah 42:1 Jeremiah 43:1 "They came into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah."- Jeremiah 43:7 THUS within a few days Jeremiah had exper...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Before going forward, Johanan and those associated with him, gathered to Jeremiah, and asked that he pray for them and seek divine guidance. He consented at once to their request, and they promised ob...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For ye were (h) hypocrites in your hearts, when ye sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Deceived. Septuagint, "done ill in your souls." Your intention was bad. You thought that I should speak conformably to your wishes. (Calmet) --- He saw by the prophetic light, or by their deportment,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I cannot sufficiently admire the faithfulness of the Prophet, in times of such general danger. What an uniformity Jeremiah manifested, in his office of speaking the truths of God. Oh! for the Lord to...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He now adds another circumstance, that they had sent him under the pretense of rare piety, as though they were in every way ready to render obedience to God. But he first says that they had _deceived...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS,.... Did not honestly and faithfully declare their intentions; they said one thing with their mouths, and meant another in their minds; they pretended they would act a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For ye dissembled in your hearts_ Hebrew, התעתום, _have used deceit._ They acted deceitfully, either toward God, calling him to bear witness to their sincerity in a matter in which they were not sinc...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's Warning Answer...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For ye dissembled in your hearts, literally, "ye have used deceit upon your own souls," WHEN YE SENT ME UNTO THE LORD, YOUR GOD, SAYING, PRAY FOR US UNTO THE LORD, OUR GOD, AND ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS: Or, you have used deceit against your souls...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-22 If we would know the mind of the Lord in doubtful cases, we must wait as well as pray. God is ever ready to return in mercy to those he has afflicted; and he never rejects any who rely on his pr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS; or, you have used deceit, either towards God, dealing falsely with him, calling him to be a witness to your sincerity in what you never intended any sincerity in; or towa...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH BRINGS TO THE PEOPLE THE WORD OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 42:7). The break of ten days during which Jeremiah waited on YHWH brings out the importance of what is to be said. The run of cultic prophets s...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    RECOGNISING THAT THEY HAVE NO INTENTION OF OBEYING YHWH JEREMIAH PRONOUNCES OVER THEM WHAT IS TO COME ON THEM (JEREMIAH 42:19). Having been brought down to being a remnant, Judah have now been given t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's answer to the inquiry of the people and Jeremiah concerning the calamities recently befallen. God's charge to the people in the land. CHARACTERS: God, Johanan, Jezaniah, Jeremiah. CON...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 42:1. _Then came all the captains of the forces._ שׂרי _sari,_ the princes of the army. _Johanan and Jezaniah_ are for dignity named last, because they were of royal blood. All the people, be...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us._ THE HYPOCRISY OF DESIRING THE PRAYERS OF OTHERS WITHOUT A SUITABLE CONDUCT I. Consider on what princip...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 42:19 Jeremiah could hardly speak more plainly: to obey means life; to disobey means death. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY as in previous chapter. Observe: _Jeremiah and Baruch_ had been _among the captives of Ishmael_, whom Johanan _rescued_ (chap. Jeremiah 43:6). STATE OF THE NA...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Jeremiah receives a request to inquire of God concerning the proposed emigration, and a "word of the Lord" follows. JEREMIAH 42:1 JEZANIAH THE SON OF HOSHAIAH. For "Jezaniah," the Septuag...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter 42: Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, they came unto Jeremiah, and said unto him, We beg you, that you will accept our supplication, and pray for us un...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 14:4; Ezekiel 33:31; Galatians 6:7; James 1:22;...

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