Jeremiah 43:2

Proud leaders accuse Jeremiah of lying, claiming God never told them not to go to Egypt. Their charge reveals hearts that reject God's word when it crosses their will.

Cross-references · 24

• 2 Chr 36:13He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• Isa 7:9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
• Jer 42:1Then 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 to the greatest, came near,
• Jer 13:15Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.
• Jer 5:12–13They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine.
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Prov 16:18–19Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Jer 40:8then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
• Jer 43:1When 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,
• Hab 2:4–5Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Prov 16:5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
• Jer 40:13–16Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
• Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
• Prov 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
• Ps 123:4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
• Ps 12:3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
• Jer 41:16Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.
• Exod 9:17as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
• Exod 5:2Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
• Prov 30:9lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
• Prov 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
• Ps 10:4–5The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
• Isa 9:9–10All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

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