Jeremiah 43
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- 1When Jeremiah had finished delivering every word the LORD their God had sent him to speak to the people, including all these words,
- 2Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men confronted Jeremiah. "You're lying!" they said. "The LORD our God didn't send you to tell us, 'Don't go to Egypt to settle there.'
- 3Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, so they can put us to death or carry us away as captives to Babylon.
- 4So Johanan son of Kareah, all the military commanders, and all the people refused to obey the LORD's command to stay in the land of Judah.
- 5But Johanan son of Kareah and all the military commanders took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah.
- 6This included men, women, children, the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, along with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
- 7They went to Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they arrived at Tahpanhes.
- 8Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
- 9Take large stones in your hand and hide them in the clay of the brick kiln at the entrance of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.
- 10Then tell them, 'This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to summon my servant Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and bring him here. I will set his throne right over these stones I have buried, and he will spread his royal canopy above them.
- 11When he arrives, he will strike the land of Egypt. Those marked for death will die, those marked for captivity will be taken captive, and those marked for the sword will fall by the sword.
- 12I will set fire to the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he will burn them and take them captive. He will dress himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he will leave from there in peace.
- 13He will also break the images of Bethshemesh, which is in the land of Egypt, and he will burn the houses of the gods of the Egyptians with fire.