H0776G–אֶ֫רֶץ–e.rets

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

מֵאֶ֣רֶץ (אֶ֣רֶץ) 'E.retz “[the] land of”

And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among

הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (אָֽרֶץ) 'A.retz “earth”

The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,

הָאָ֑רֶץ (אָ֑רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (אָֽרֶץ) 'A.retz “earth”

But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.

הָאָרֶץ֒ (אָרֶץ֒) 'a.Retz “land”

And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end

הָאָ֣רֶץ (אָ֣רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.

בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (אֶ֥רֶץ) 'E.retz “[the] land of”

But he and his servants and the people of the land did not give ear to the words of the Lord which he said by Jeremiah the prophet.

הָאָ֑רֶץ (אָ֑רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.

לְאַרְצ֖וֹ (אַרְצ֖) 'ar.Tz “own land”

Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, with the purpose of taking up his heritage there among the people.

אֶ֣רֶץ 'E.retz “[the] land of”

Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?

הָאָ֥רֶץ (אָ֥רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.

בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (אֶ֣רֶץ) 'E.retz “[the] land of”

But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the people, who had nothing whatever, go on living in the land of Judah, and gave them vine-gardens and fields at the same time.

בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (אֶ֣רֶץ) 'E.retz “[the] land of”

Now see, this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will keep an eye on you; but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come: se

הָאָ֣רֶץ (אָ֣רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, in Mizpah, and was living with him among the people who were still in the land.

בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ (אָֽרֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Now when it came to the ears of all the captains of the forces who were in the field, and their men, that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, ruler in the land, and had put under his care the men and women and children, all the poor

בָּאָ֑רֶץ (אָ֑רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

And Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear of the servants of the Chaldaeans: go on living in the land, and become the servants of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.

בָאָ֗רֶץ (אָ֗רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, t

הָֽאֲרָצוֹת֙ (אֲרָצוֹת֙) 'a.ra.tzOt “lands”

Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.

אֶֽרֶץ־ 'e.retz- “[the] land of”

Then Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, got up, and attacking Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, put to death him whom the king of Babylon had made ruler over the land.

בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ (אָֽרֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Because of the Chaldaeans: for they were in fear of them because Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had put to death Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made ruler over the land.

בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ (אָֽרֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.

בָּאָ֣רֶץ (אָ֣רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

בָּאָ֣רֶץ (אָ֣רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;

אֶ֤רֶץ 'E.retz “[the] land of”

Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.

בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (אֶ֣רֶץ) 'E.retz “[the] land of”