Jeremiah 43.1. It happened when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD* their God, for which the LORD* their God had sent him to them, all these words, 2. then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the proud men spoke saying to Jeremiah, You are speaking falsely. The LORD* our God has not sent you to say, Do not go to Egypt to sojourn there, 3. but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans so they could put us to death and carry us away captive to Babylon. 4. So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD*, to stay in the land of Judah. 5. But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah, who returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah, 6. men and women and children and the king’s daughters and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shafan and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah. 7. So they came to the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD*. Thus they came to Tahpanhes.
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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