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In Egypt Jeremiah Warns of Judgment

¹ Now it happened when Jeremiah, whom the LORD their God had sent, had ^(C1)finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—that is, all these words—² Azariah the ^(C1)son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the proud and insolent men said to Jeremiah, "You are ^(C2)not telling the truth! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, 'Do not go into Egypt to live there.'³ "But ^(C1)Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans, so they may either put us to death or exile us to Babylon."⁴ So ^(C1)Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people ^(C2)disobeyed the voice of the LORD which told them to ^(C3)stay in the land of Judah.⁵ But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took ^(C1)all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven—⁶ the men, women, and children, the ^(C1)king's daughters (ladies of the court), and ^(C2)every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; he also took ^(C3)Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.⁷ So they entered the land of Egypt (for they did not obey the voice of the LORD) and they went in as far as ^(F1)(C1)Tahpanhes.

⁸ Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah in ^(C1)Tahpanhes, saying,⁹ "Take some large stones in your hands and hide them in the mortar in the brickwork of the terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's ^(F1)house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of some of the men of Judah;¹⁰ and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am going to send and get ^(F1)(C1)Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(C2)My servant, and I am going to set his throne over these stones that I have hidden; and his majestic, royal ^(C3)canopy will be spread over them. ^(VR1)11 "He will also come and ^(F1)(C1)strike the land of Egypt, giving those who are destined for death, to death, and those who are destined for captivity, to captivity, and ^(C2)those who are destined for the sword, to the sword.¹² "And through him I will set fire to the temples of the ^(C1)gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them (Egyptian idols) captive. He will ^(C2)wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will go away from there safely.¹³ "Nebuchadnezzar will also break the images and shatter the obelisks of ^(F1)Heliopolis in the land of Egypt; and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt."'"