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<p id="Chapter42" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 42
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<p id="Jer42_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,'1-22');">Jer 42:1-22</a>. THE JEWS AND JOHANAN INQUIRE OF GOD, THROUGH JEREMIAH, AS TO GOING TO EGYPT, PROMISING OBEDIENCE TO HIS WILL. THEIR SAFETY ON CONDITION OF STAYING IN JUDEA, AND THEIR DESTRUCTION IN THE EVENT OF GOING TO EGYPT, ARE FORETOLD. THEM HYPOCRISY IN ASKING FOR COUNSEL WHICH THEY MEANT NOT TO FOLLOW, IF CONTRARY TO THEIR OWN DETERMINATION, IS REPROVED.
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<p id="Jer42_2"><b>2. Jeremiah</b>—He probably was one of the number carried off from Mizpah, and dwelt with Johanan (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,16);">Jer 41:16</a>). Hence the expression is, "came near" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,1);">Jer 42:1</a>), not "sent."
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<br><br><b>Let...supplication be accepted</b>—literally, "fall" (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer036.html#Jer36_7">Jer 36:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',37,20);">Jer 37:20</a>).
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<br><br><b>pray for us</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',20,7);">Gen 20:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',37,4);">Isa 37:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jam',5,16);">Jam 5:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>thy God</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,5);">Jer 42:5</a>). The Jews use this form to express their belief in the peculiar relation in which <i>Jeremiah</i> stood to God as His accredited prophet. Jeremiah in his reply reminds them that God is <i>their</i> God ("<i>your</i> God") as well as his as being the covenant people (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,4);">Jer 42:4</a>). They in turn acknowledge this in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,6);">Jer 42:6</a>, "the Lord <i>our</i> God."
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<br><br><b>few of many</b>—as had been foretold (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',26,22);">Lev 26:22</a>).
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<p id="Jer42_3"><b>3.</b> 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 (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',22,13);">1Ki 22:13</a>). Compare Jeremiah's answer (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,4);">Jer 42:4</a>) with Micaiah's (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',22,14);">1Ki 22:14</a>).
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<p id="Jer42_4"><b>4. I have heard</b>—that is, I accede to your request.
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<br><br><b>your God</b>—Being His by adoption, ye are not your own, and are bound to whatever He wills (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',19,5,6);">Exd 19:5-6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',6,19,20);">1Cr 6:19-20</a>).
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<br><br><b>answer you</b>—that is, through me.
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<br><br><b>keep nothing back</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',3,18);">1Sa 3:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',20,20);">Act 20:20</a>).
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<p id="Jer42_5"><b>5. Lord be a true...witness</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',31,50);">Gen 31:50</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',89,37);">Psa 89:37</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',1,5);">Rev 1:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',3,14);">3:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',19,11);">19:11</a>).
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<p id="Jer42_6"><b>6. evil</b>—not moral evil, which God cannot command (<a onclick="return mV('Jam',1,13);">Jam 1:13</a>), but what may be <i>disagreeable</i> and <i>hard</i> to us. Piety obeys God, without questioning, at all costs. See the instance defective in this, that it obeyed only so far as was agreeable to itself (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',15,3,9,'13-15','20-23');">1Sa 15:3, 9, 13-15; 20-23</a>).
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<p id="Jer42_7"><b>7. ten days</b>—Jeremiah did not speak of himself, but waited God's time and revelation, showing the reality of his inspiration. Man left to himself would have given an immediate response to the people, who were impatient of delay. The delay was designed to test the sincerity of their professed willingness to obey, and that they should have full time to deliberate (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',8,2);">Deu 8:2</a>). True obedience bows to God's time, as well as His way and will.
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<p id="Jer42_10"><b>10. If ye...abide</b>—namely, under the Babylonian authority, to which God hath appointed that all should be subject (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,37,38);">Dan 2:37-38</a>). To resist was to resist God.
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<br><br><b>build...plant</b>—metaphor for, <i>I will firmly establish</i> you (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',24,6);">Jer 24:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>I repent...of the evil</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',18,8);">Jer 18:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,36);">Deu 32:36</a>). <i>I am satisfied with the punishment I have inflicted on you,</i> if only you add not a new offense [GROTIUS]. God is said to "repent," when He alters His outward ways of dealing.
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<p id="Jer42_12"><b>12. show mercies</b>—rather, I <i>will excite</i> (in him) <i>feelings of mercy</i> towards you [CALVIN].
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<br><br><b>cause you to return</b>—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 feared to lose by doing so.
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<p id="Jer42_13"><b>13. if ye say,</b> etc.—avowed rebellion against God, who had often (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',17,16);">Deu 17:16</a>), as now, forbidden their going to Egypt, lest they should be entangled in its idolatry.
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<p id="Jer42_14"><b>14. where we shall see no war</b>—Here they betray their impiety in not believing God's promise (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,10,11);">Jer 42:10-11</a>), as if He were a liar (<a onclick="return mV('1Jo',5,10);">1Jo 5:10</a>).
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<p id="Jer42_15"><b>15. wholly set your faces</b>—<i>firmly resolve</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Luk',9,51);">Luk 9:51</a>) in spite of all warnings (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',44,12);">Jer 44:12</a>).
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<p id="Jer42_16"><b>16. sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you</b>—The very evils we think to escape by sin, we bring on ourselves thereby. What our hearts are most set on often proves fatal to us. Those who think to escape troubles by changing their place will find them wherever they go (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',11,8);">Eze 11:8</a>). The "sword" here is that of Nebuchadnezzar, who fulfilled the prediction in his expedition to Africa (according to MEGASTHENES, a heathen writer),300 B.C.
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<p id="Jer42_17"><b>17. all the men</b>—excepting the "small number" mentioned (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',44,14, 28);">Jer 44:14, 28</a>); namely, those who were forced into Egypt against their will, Jeremiah, Baruch, etc., and those who took Jeremiah's advice and fled from Egypt before the arrival of the Chaldeans.
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<p id="Jer42_18"><b>18. As mine anger,</b> etc.—As ye have already, to your sorrow, found Me true to My word, so shall ye again (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,20);">Jer 7:20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',18,16);">18:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>shall see this place no more</b>—Ye shall not return to Judea, as those shall who have been removed to Babylon.
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<p id="Jer42_19"><b>19. I have admonished</b>—literally, "testified," that is, solemnly admonished, having yourselves as My <i>witnesses;</i> so that if ye perish, ye yourselves will have to confess that it was through your own fault, not through ignorance, ye perished.
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<p id="Jer42_20"><b>20. dissembled in your hearts</b>—rather, "ye have used deceit against your (own) souls." It is not God, but yourselves, whom ye deceive, to your own ruin, by your own dissimulation (<a onclick="return mV('Gal',6,7);">Gal 6:7</a>) [CALVIN]. But the words following accord best with <i>English Version, ye have dissembled in your hearts</i> (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer042.html#Jer42_3">Jer 42:3</a>) towards me, <i>when ye sent me</i> to consult God for you.
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<p id="Jer42_21"><b>21. declared it</b>—namely, the divine will.
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<br><br><b>I...but ye</b>—antithesis. <i>I</i> have done my part; <i>but ye</i> do not yours. It is no fault of mine that ye act not rightly.
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<p id="Jer42_22"><b>22. sojourn</b>—<i>for a time,</i> until they could return to their country. They expected, therefore, to be restored, in spite of God's prediction to the contrary.
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