JEREMIAH 43

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   1 When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all

the words of the LORD their God--everything the

LORD had sent him to tell them--   2 Azariah son of

Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the

arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are lying! The

LORD our God has not sent you to say, 'You must not

go to Egypt to settle there.'   3 But Baruch son of

Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to

the Babylonians, so they may kill us or carry us

into exile to Babylon."

   4 So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army

officers and all the people disobeyed the LORD's

command to stay in the land of Judah.   5 Instead,

Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers led

away all the remnant of Judah who had come back

to live in the land of Judah from all the nations

where they had been scattered.   6 They also led

away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of

the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of

Ahikam, the son of Shaphan--the men, the women,

the children and the king's daughters. And they took

Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah

along with them.   7 So they entered Egypt in

disobedience to the LORD and went as far as

Tahpanhes.

   8 In Tahpanhes the word of the LORD came to

Jeremiah:   9 "While the Jews are watching, take

some large stones with you and bury them in clay in

the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's

palace in Tahpanhes.   10 Then say to them, 'This is

what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will

send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of

Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones I

have buried here; he will spread his royal canopy

above them.   11 He will come and attack Egypt,

bringing death to those destined for death, captivity

to those destined for captivity, and the sword to

those destined for the sword.   12 He will set fire to

the temples of the gods of Egypt; he will burn their

temples and take their gods captive. As a shepherd

picks his garment clean of lice, so he will pick Egypt

clean and depart.   13 There in the temple of the sun

in Egypt he will demolish the sacred pillars and

will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.' "