◄ Jeremiah 23:23 ►
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Good News Translation
"I am a God who is everywhere and not in one place only.

New Revised Standard Version
Am I a God near by, says the LORD, and not a God far off?

Contemporary English Version
I am everywhere--both near and far,

New American Bible
Am I a God near at hand only—oracle of the LORD— and not a God far off?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?

1 Kings 20:23,28 But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them. . . .

Psalm 113:5 Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

Psalm 139:1-10 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: . . .

Ezekiel 20:32-35 Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth, to worship stocks and stones. . . .

Jonah 1:3,4 Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me. . . .

Context
Lying Prophets
…22If they had stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way, and from their wicked doings. 23Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?24Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?…
Cross References
Acts 17:27
That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.

Psalm 139:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:

Jeremiah 23:22
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