Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Ye dissembled in your hearts - Or, "ye have led yourselves astray," i. e., your sending me to ask counsel of God was an act of self-delusion. You felt so sure that God would direct you to go into Egypt, that now that He has spoken to the contrary, you are unable to reconcile yourselves to it.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 42:20:
Isaiah 27:13
Ezekiel 5:12
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