Jeremiah 38:21

Jeremiah warns that if the king refuses, God has shown him the grim outcome to follow.

Cross-references · 17

• Ezek 2:4–5They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
• Ezek 2:7But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
• Exod 10:3–4So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
• Exod 16:28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
• Jer 15:19–21Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
• Jer 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Jer 26:15But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”
• Prov 1:24–31Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
• Isa 1:19–20If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
• Job 34:33Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
• Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
• Ezek 3:17–19“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
• Acts 18:6But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
• Acts 20:26–27Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
• Num 24:13that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.
• Heb 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
• Num 23:19–20God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

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