Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 44:28
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Jeremiah44:28
28. small number--(see on Jr 44:14; and Jr 42:17; Is 27:13); compare "all-consumed" (Jr 44:27). A band easily counted, whereas they were expecting to return triumphantly in large numbers.
shall know--most of them experimentally, and to their cost.
whose words ... mine, or theirs--Hebrew, "that from Me and them." Jehovah's words are His threats of destruction to the Jews; theirs, the assertion that they expected all goods from their gods (Jr 44:17), &c. "Mine"; by which I predict ruin to them. "Theirs"; by which they give themselves free scope in iniquity.
shall stand--(Psa 33:11).
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