Lexham English Bible

Jeremiah 42:5-8 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be against us as a true and faithful witness if we do not do according to all the words that Yahweh sends you for us.

6. Whether good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God.”

7. And then at the end of ten days the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah.

8. And he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest,