Verse Lens · Context pointer
Jeremiah 44:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land…” at Jeremiah 44:12 as part of “A Severe Oracle Threatens the Egyptian Remnant.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 44:11–14
Read Jeremiah 44:12 with 44:11–14. By itself, “And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: The group set on living in Egypt is threatened with sword, famine, reproach, and almost no return to Judah.
Why It Needs Context
Jeremiah 44:12 performs a local role inside “A Severe Oracle Threatens the Egyptian Remnant.” The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land…” at Jeremiah 44:12 as part of “A Severe Oracle Threatens the Egyptian Remnant.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Jeremiah 44:11–14 — A Severe Oracle Threatens the Egyptian RemnantSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 44:11–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 44:11–14
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