13But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,
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As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
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. H…
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