Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
small number—(see on Jeremiah 44:14; and Jeremiah 42:17; Isaiah 27:13); compare "all-consumed" (Jeremiah 44:27). A band easily counted, whereas they were expecting to return triumphantly in large numbers.
shall know—most of them experimentally, and to their cost.
whose words . . . mine, or theirs—Hebrew, "that from Me and them." Jehovah's words are His threats of destruction to the Jews; theirs, the assertion that they expected all goods from their gods (Jeremiah 44:17), etc. "Mine"; by which I predict ruin to them. "Theirs"; by which they give themselves free scope in iniquity.
shall stand— (Psalms 33:11).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 44:28:
Jeremiah 42:17
Jeremiah 44:11
Jeremiah 44:14
Ezekiel 6:8
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