Jeremiah 40:2
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New International Version (©2011)
When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, he said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster for this place.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The captain of the guard called for Jeremiah and said, "The LORD your God has brought this disaster on this land,

English Standard Version (©2001)
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God pronounced this disaster against this place.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God promised this calamity against this place;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,

International Standard Version (©2012)
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and told him, "The LORD your God has predicted this disaster on this place.

NET Bible (©2006)
The captain of the royal guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, "The LORD your God threatened this place with this disaster.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, "The LORD your God threatened to bring this disaster on this place.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil upon this place.

American King James Version
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil on this place.

American Standard Version
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place,

Darby Bible Translation
And the captain of the body-guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place,

English Revised Version
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, the LORD thy God pronounced this evil upon this place:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

World English Bible
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;

Young's Literal Translation
And the chief of the executioners taketh Jeremiah, and saith unto him, 'Jehovah thy God hath spoken this evil concerning this place,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

40:1-6 The captain of the guard seems to glory that he had been God's instrument to fulfil, what Jeremiah had been God's messenger to foretell. Many can see God's justice and truth with regard to others, who are heedless and blind as to themselves and their own sins. But, sooner or later, all men shall be made sensible that their sin is the cause of all their miseries. Jeremiah has leave to dispose of himself; but is advised to go to Gedaliah, governor of the land under the king of Babylon. It is doubtful whether Jeremiah acted right in this decision. But those who desire the salvation of sinners, and the good of the church, are apt to expect better times from slight appearances, and they will prefer the hope of being useful, to the most secure situations without it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah,.... When he mustered his prisoners, to his great surprise he found the prophet among them, whom he took out from them, and set him free; though, before he dismissed him, he had the following conversation with him:

and said unto him, the Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil on this place; the city of Jerusalem; from whence the prophet and the rest of the captives were just brought, and which now lay in ruins; the houses burnt; the walls broken down; and the inhabitants spoiled and carried captive. This was the evil which the Lord, he says, had "decreed", as the Targum renders it; had purposed to bring upon it; and which he had declared and pronounced by the mouth of Jeremiah, whose Lord God he was, being his prophet, and a worshipper of him: this Nebuzaradan was apprized of by the Jews that deserted to the Chaldeans; and particularly, as is probable, by Gedaliah.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. The Babylonians were in some measure aware, through Jeremiah's prophecies (Jer 39:11), that they were the instruments of God's wrath on His people.

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Jeremiah Remains in Judah
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive to Babylon. 2And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil on this place. 3Now the LORD has brought it, and done according as he has said: because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come on you. …

Leviticus 26:14 "'But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,
Deuteronomy 28:15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
Deuteronomy 29:24 All the nations will ask: "Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"
Deuteronomy 31:17 And in that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, 'Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?'
Deuteronomy 32:19 The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
Jeremiah 22:8 "People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'
Jeremiah 22:9 And the answer will be: 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.'"
Jeremiah 50:7 Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, 'We are not guilty, for they sinned against the LORD, their verdant pasture, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.'
Jeremiah 52:16 But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.