Jeremiah 42

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For Jeremiah 42 in the Septuagint, see Jeremiah 35.
Jeremiah 42
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Order in the Hebrew part6
CategoryLatter Prophets
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Jeremiah 42 is the forty-second

hypocrites[3]
in asking for advice which they intended to ignore.

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 22 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[4] Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 2QJer (2Q13; 1st century CE[5]), with extant verses 7‑11, 14.[6][7]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint (with a different chapter and verse numbering), made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[8]

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.[9]

The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS).[9]

Hebrew, Vulgate, English Rahlfs' LXX (CATSS)
42:1-22 49:1-22
35:1-19 42:1-19

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[10] Jeremiah 42 is a part of the "Sixteenth prophecy (Jeremiah 40-45)" in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life (Jeremiah 26-45). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{P} 42:1-6 {P} 42:7-22 {S}

Verses 1-6

The survivors of Ishmael's rebellion came to Jeremiah, who might be among the captives freed by Johanan and his forces (Jeremiah 41:16),[11] requesting him to intercede and ask God's will on their behalf, as they were uncertain what to do.[2]

Verse 3

"that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do."[12]

The people sought Jeremiah for advice with regard to their plan to escape to Egypt.[2]

Verse 10b

New King James Version:

... For I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought upon you.[13]

Alternative interpretations include:

Biblical commentator A. W. Streane describes the King James Version's wording as "an

anthropomorphic figure", as if God's intention was to change conduct towards the people of Judah, "which with men is commonly caused by change of purpose".[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ Coogan 2007, pp. 1137-1138 Hebrew Bible.
  2. ^ a b c O'Connor 2007, p. 520.
  3. ^ Jeremiah 42:20
  4. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  5. ISSN 0940-4155
    .
  6. ISBN 9780802862419
    . Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  7. ISBN 9789004181830
    . Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  8. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  9. ^ a b "Table of Order of Jeremiah in Hebrew and Septuagint". www.ccel.org.
  10. ^ As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
  11. ^ Coogan 2007, p. 1144 Hebrew Bible.
  12. ^ Jeremiah 42:3 NKJV
  13. ^ Jeremiah 42:10 NKJV
  14. ^ Jeremiah 42:10 KJV
  15. ^ Jeremiah 42:10 AMP
  16. ^ Jerusalem Bible (1966), Jeremiah 42:10b
  17. ISBN 978-0-19-927718-6
  18. ^ Streane, A. W., Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Jeremiah 42, accessed 3 April 2019

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