The Lord said to Jeremiah:

So I went and buried them at Perath as the Lord had ordered me to do.

My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me.

The Lord said to Jeremiah:

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah.

They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.

He did what displeased the Lord just as Jehoiakim had done.

The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.

They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them.

The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.

Then he brought me to the gate that faced toward the east.

The ram that you saw with the two horns stands for the kings of Media and Persia.

This is the Lord’s message that was given to Joel the son of Pethuel:

For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’”

“The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem

It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

Moses and Aaron did so, just as the Lord had commanded. Moses raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.