When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—
Parallel translations
- WEB When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
- KJV And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
- NKJV Now it happened, when Jeremiah had stopped speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, all these words,
- NASB But as soon as Jeremiah, whom the Lord their God had sent to them, had finished telling all the people all the words of the Lord their God—that is, all these words—
- NLT When Jeremiah had finished giving this message from the Lord their God to all the people,
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Quick answer
Jeremiah finishes delivering the complete message God gave him to the people. It stresses that he conveyed all of God's words faithfully, withholding nothing.
Overview
This verse closes Jeremiah's prophecy of chapter 42 and underscores his faithfulness as God's spokesman. The repeated phrase that these were the words of 'Yahweh their God' highlights both the divine source of the message and the people's covenant relationship they were spurning. A faithful messenger declaring the whole counsel of God anticipates Christ, the perfect prophet who made known all the Father gave Him to speak.
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Cross-references · 12
- Jer 26:8and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
- Jer 51:63When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
- Jer 42:22Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
- Jer 1:17Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
- Acts 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
- 1 Sam 8:10So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
- Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Jer 42:3–5Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”
- Acts 5:20“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
- Exod 24:3When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
- Jer 26:2“This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.
- Jer 1:7But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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