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them. When he comes, he shall strike the land
OCTOBER 29 of Egypt and deliver to death those appointed for
death, and to captivity those appointed for cap-
tivity, and to the sword those appointed for the
Jeremiah 43:1–44:30 sword. I will kindle a fire in the houses of the
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gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and
Now it happened, when Jeremiah had
43 stopped speaking to all the people all carry them away captive. And he shall array
the words of the LORD their God, for which the himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
LORD their God had sent him to them, all these puts on his garment, and he shall go out from
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words, that Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, there in peace. He shall also break the sacred
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Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud pillars of Beth Shemesh that are in the land of
men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyp-
falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to tians he shall burn with fire.” ’ ”
say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.’ But The word that came to Jeremiah con-
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Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against 44 cerning all the Jews who dwell in the
us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, land of Egypt, who dwell at Migdol, at
that they may put us to death or carry us away Tahpanhes, at Noph, and in the country of
captive to Babylon.” So Johanan the son of Pathros, saying, “Thus says the LORD of
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Kareah, all the captains of the forces, and all hosts, the God of Israel: ‘You have seen all the
the people would not obey the voice of the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and
LORD, to remain in the land of Judah. But on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day
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Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains they are a desolation, and no one dwells in
of the forces took all the remnant of Judah them, because of their wickedness which they
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who had returned to dwell in the land of Ju- have committed to provoke Me to anger, in
dah, from all nations where they had been that they went to burn incense and to serve
driven— men, women, children, the king’s other gods whom they did not know, they nor
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daughters, and every person whom Nebu- you nor your fathers. However I have sent to
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zaradan the captain of the guard had left with you all My servants the prophets, rising early
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and sending them, saying, “Oh, do not do this
and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son abominable thing that I hate!” But they did
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of Neriah. So they went to the land of Egypt,
for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And not listen or incline their ear to turn from their
they went as far as Tahpanhes. wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
6 So My fury and My anger were poured out
and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and
desolate, as it is this day.’
7 “Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the
43:1–7 when Jeremiah…stopped speaking.
The incorrigible, disobedient leaders accused God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you
him of deceit and forced Jeremiah and the commit this great evil against yourselves, to
remnant to go to Egypt, despite the fact that cut off from you man and woman, child and
all his prophecies regarding Babylon had infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain,
come to pass. In so doing, they went out of 8 in that you provoke Me to wrath with the
God’s protection into His judgment,as all who works of your hands, burning incense to other
are disobedient to His Word do. gods in the land of Egypt where you have
gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off
and be a curse and a reproach among all the
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8 Then the word of the LORD came to nations of the earth? Have you forgotten the
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Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, “Take large wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of
stones in your hand, and hide them in the sight the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their
of the men of Judah, in the clay in the brick wives, your own wickedness, and the wicked-
courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s ness of your wives, which they committed in
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house in Tahpanhes; and say to them, ‘Thus the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusa-
says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Be- lem? They have not been humbled, to this day,
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hold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the nor have they feared; they have not walked in
king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his My law or in My statutes that I set before you
throne above these stones that I have hidden. and your fathers.’
And he will spread his royal pavilion over 11 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the
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