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Jeremiah 43
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Jeremiah Taken to Egypt
1When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them,
2Azariah the son of 43:2 ch. 42:1Hoshaiah and 43:2 See ch. 40:8Johanan the son of Kareah and 43:2 Ps. 86:14; Isa. 13:11; Mal. 4:1all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, 43:2 ch. 42:19‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’
3but 43:3 See ch. 32:12Baruch the son of Neriah 43:3 [ch. 38:22] has set you against us, 43:3 [ch. 37:13]to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon.”
4So 43:4 [See ver. 2above] Johanan the son of Kareah and all 43:4 ch. 40:13the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Judah.
5But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took 43:5 [ch. 40:11, 12]all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven—
643:6 ch. 44:20the men, the women, the children, 43:6 See ch. 38:23the princesses, and every person whom 43:6 ch. 39:10; 40:7Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with 43:6 See ch. 39:14Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.
7And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at 43:7 ch. 2:16; 44:1; 46:14; [Isa. 30:4]Tahpanhes.
8Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in 43:8 [See ver. 7above]Tahpanhes:
9“Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in 43:9 [See ver. 7above]Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,
10and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, 43:10 See ch. 25:9my servant, 43:10 ch. 1:15and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.
11He shall come 43:11 ch. 44:13; 46:13and strike the land of Egypt, 43:11 See ch. 15:2giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword.
1243:12 See ch. 17:27I shall kindle a fire 43:12 ch. 46:25; Ezek. 30:13; [Ex. 12:12; Isa. 19:1] in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them 43:12 [ch. 48:7] and carry them away captive. 43:12 [Ps. 104:2; Isa. 49:18]And he shall clean the land of Egypt 43:12 [Ps. 104:2; Isa. 49:18]as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.
13He shall break the 43:13 [Ex. 23:24] obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, 43:13 [See ver. 12above]and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”