Jeremiah 42:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Jeremiah 42:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Psalms 106:45-46
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. …
Proverbs 16:7
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-22)

We have here the answer which Jeremiah was sent to deliver to those who employed him to ask counsel of God. I. It did not come immediately, not till ten days after, Jer. 42:7. They were thus long held in suspense, perhaps, to punish them for their hypocrisy or to show that Jeremiah did not speak of himself, nor what he would, for he could not speak when he would, but must wait for instructions. Ho…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. show mercies--rather, I will excite (in him) feelings of mercy towards you [Calvin]. cause you to return--permit you to return to the peaceable enjoyment of the possessions from which you are wishing to withdraw through fear of the Chaldeans. By departing in disobedience they should incur the very evils they wished thereby to escape; and by staying they should gain the blessings which they fea…