Jeremiah 42:1-2

Lexham English Bible

The Remnant Asks Jeremiah to Pray to Yahweh for Direction

42 Then all the commanders of the armies, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest, approached ² and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “May our plea please fall before you,^[a] and pray for us to Yahweh your God, for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes are seeing us.