Bible Strands
Jeremiah 44:28
Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the Jewish exiles who fled to Egypt after Jerusalem's destruction, delivering a final judgment after condemning their idolatrous worship.
The words — The text highlights פְלִטֵי (peletê) as "escapees" and חֶרֶב (ḥereḇ) as "the sword," describing a tiny group who will survive the coming disaster.
The thread — This survival motif echoes Jeremiah 44:14, which denies any escape, and Isaiah 10:19, which compares the remnant to countable remaining trees.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that God’s judgment will definitively prove His word stands over human plans.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 44:14 so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
- Isaiah 10:19 The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
- Isaiah 27:12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
- Jeremiah 44:25 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!
- Psalms 33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
- Isaiah 28:16 So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
- Isaiah 46:10 I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
- Jeremiah 44:29 This will be a sign to you that I will punish you in this place, declares the LORD, so that you may know that My threats of harm against you will surely stand.
- Lamentations 3:37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
- Zechariah 1:6 But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”