Jeremiah 42:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

Jeremiah 42:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 86:11
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Proverbs 3:6
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Psalms 25:4-5
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. …
Ezra 8:21
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Micah 4:2
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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Backsliders God Seekers Wicked (people)

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-6)

We have reason to wonder how Jeremiah the prophet escaped the sword of Ishmael; it seems he did escape, and it was not the first time that the Lord hid him. It is strange also that in these violent turns he was not consulted before now, and his advice asked and taken. But it should seem as if they knew not that a prophet was among them. Though this people were as brands plucked out of the fire, ye…

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

(vv. 3)

3. They consulted God, like many, not so much to know what was right, as wishing Him to authorize what they had already determined on, whether agreeable to His will or not. So Ahab in consulting Micaiah (1Ki 22:13). Compare Jeremiah’s answer (Jr 42:4) with Micaiah’s (1Ki 22:14).