Jeremiah 42:10
If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 42:13 immediately presents the alternative — refusing to stay, contrasting with the promise of building up.
Jeremiah 31:28 reverses the 'pluck up and break down' judgment — promising future building and planting for a restored people.
Jeremiah 24:6 uses nearly identical building/planting language for the exiles — showing this is a consistent promise of restoration.
Jeremiah 18:7-10 lays out the conditional principle of relenting — exactly the logic behind the promise here.
Jeremiah 43:4 records the people's disobedience by leaving the land — the direct opposite of the obedience Jeremiah 42:10 required for blessing.
Jeremiah 27:11 promises that serving Babylon allows staying in the land — mirroring the blessing of remaining in Jeremiah 42:10.
Jeremiah 26:13 calls for repentance so God relents — directly parallel to the condition and promise in Jeremiah 42:10.
Jeremiah 18:8 states the principle: if a nation turns from evil, God relents — the same logic behind the promise in Jeremiah 42:10.
Jeremiah 11:17 says God planted Israel but then pronounced disaster — now He relents and promises not to pluck up.
Jeremiah 33:7 promises to rebuild Judah's fortunes — a broader restoration that echoes the same divine initiative.
Ezekiel 36:36 uses 'rebuild and replant' language — a parallel promise that God will restore desolate places for his glory.
Hosea 11:8 portrays God's heart recoiling from destroying Ephraim — a poignant expression of relenting from judgment.
Joel 2:13 calls Israel to return because God relents over disaster — directly parallels the attribute highlighted in Jeremiah.
Amos 7:3 records God relenting from the locust plague at Amos's intercession — the same verb used for divine relenting.
Amos 7:6 again shows God relenting from fire judgment — another instance of God changing planned punishment.
Jonah 3:10 says God relented from the disaster He threatened against Nineveh when they repented — a classic example.
Genesis 26:2 commands Isaac not to go to Egypt but stay in the land — the same instruction God gives to the remnant here.
Jonah 4:2 reveals Jonah's complaint that God is gracious and relents from disaster — the same divine attribute Jeremiah 42:10 promises to exercise.
Psalm 106:45 states God relented according to his steadfast love, remembering his covenant — the same divine relenting.
2 Samuel 24:16 explicitly says the LORD relented from the calamity and stopped the destroying angel.
Exodus 32:14 shows God relenting from destroying Israel after the golden calf — the same pattern of divine mercy after judgment.
Genesis 26:3 promises blessing and presence to Isaac for staying in the land — paralleling God's promise to build up the remnant if they remain.
Deuteronomy 29:28 describes God uprooting Israel in anger — the very action Jeremiah 42:10 promises not to do.
Deuteronomy 28:63 warns God will take delight in destroying — the opposite of His promise in Jeremiah 42:10 to build up.
Deuteronomy 32:36 describes God having compassion on his people when their strength is gone — a similar turning from judgment to mercy.