Jeremiah Waits Ten Days for a Word from the LORD* which requires great patience without which he would have been disobedient.

Jeremiah 42:7. And it was after ten days that the word of the LORD* came to Jeremiah. 8. Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him and all the people from the least even to the greatest 9. and said to them, Thus says the LORD*, the God of Israel, to Whom you sent me to present your supplication before Him. 10. If you will still live in this land, then I shall build you and not pull you down and I shall plant you and not pluck you up, for I am grieved by the evil that I have done to you. 11. Do not be in awe of the king of Babylon of whom you are afraid! Do not be in awe of him! says the LORD*, for I AM with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand. 12. And I will show compassion to you, so he will have compassion on you and cause you to return to your own land. 13. But if you say, We will not stay in this land or obey the voice of the LORD* your God 14. saying, No! But we will go to the land of Egypt where we will see no war or hear the sound of the shofar or have hunger of bread, and we will live there. 15. And now therefore hear the word of the LORD*, you remnant of Judah, Thus says the LORD* of Hosts, the God of Israel, If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to sojourn there, 16. then it will be that the sword of which you were in awe will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you were afraid will follow close after you there in Egypt, and there you will die. 17. So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to sojourn there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence and none of them will remain or escape from the evil that I AM will bring upon them.