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,
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,
- BSB 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—
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 26:8When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
- Jer 51:63It shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
- Jer 42:22Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.”
- Jer 1:17“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
- Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
- 1 Sam 8:10Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Jer 42:3–5that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.”
- Acts 5:20“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
- Exod 24:3Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”
- Jer 26:2“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
- Jer 1:7But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
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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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