A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 42:3
That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
- Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
- Jeremiah 42:6
Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.
- Jeremiah 42:7
And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.