When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God, everything the LORD their God had sent him to tell them,Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are speaking falsely! The LORD our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not enter Egypt to reside there.’Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us, to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death and take us into exile to Babylon.”So Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the troops, and all the people did not obey the LORD’s command to remain in the land of Judah.Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the troops took the entire remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been driven, to reside in the land of Judah:the men, women, children, the king’s daughters, and every person Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.They entered the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they came as far as Tahpanhes.The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes:“Take large stones in your hands and hide them in the mortar of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.Say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Look, I will send for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and bring him here. I will set his throne above these stones I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.He will come and strike the land of Egypt: those destined for death, to death; those for captivity, to captivity; and those for the sword, to the sword.I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them and carry the gods away captive. He will wrap himself in the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his cloak, and he will leave there in peace.He will break the pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt and burn the temples of the gods of Egypt with fire.’”
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Holy Bible, BibliaTodo New Translation (BTNT). Published by BibliaTodo Bible Society, an imprint of BibliaTodo LLC.