Chapter Overview
Summary
Flight to Egypt. MT ch. 43 = LXX ch. 50.
Notable Variants
Minor differences.
Structural Notes
MT ch. 43 = LXX ch. 50.
When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God — everything the LORD their God had sent him to tell them —
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Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, 'You are lying! The LORD our God did not send you to say, "Do not go to Egypt to settle there."
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Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans, so they can kill us or deport us to Babylon!'
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So Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the forces, and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD by remaining in the land of Judah.
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Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the entire remnant of Judah — those who had returned from all the nations where they had been scattered to live in the land of Judah:
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men, women, children, the king's daughters, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam — along with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
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They entered the land of Egypt — for they did not obey the voice of the LORD — and they came to Tahpanhes.
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The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:
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'Take large stones in your hand and bury them in the mortar in the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the Judean men.
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Then say to them, "This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to send for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I will set his throne over these very stones that I have buried. He will spread his royal canopy over them.
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He will come and strike the land of Egypt — those destined for death, to death; those destined for captivity, to captivity; those destined for the sword, to the sword.
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I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them and carry the gods away. He will wrap himself in the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there in peace.
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He will shatter the pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn the temples of the gods of Egypt with fire."
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