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Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God—all the words that the Lord had sent him to tell them— 2 then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the other arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there’. 3 But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us, in order to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans to put us to death or carry us away as captives to Babylon.”
4 So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the army and all the people would not obey the voice of the Lord to stay in the land of Judah. 5 Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the army led away the whole remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been scattered to live in the land of Judah— 6 the men, women, children, the daughters of the king, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah. 7 So they went to the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they went as far as Tahpanhes.
8 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes: 9 “Take some large stones in your hands, and set them in the clay in the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes, in the sight of the Judean men, 10 and say to them: ‘This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded here, and he will spread his royal canopy over them. 11 When he comes, he will strike down the land of Egypt, and deliver death to those who are destined for death, captivity for those who are destined for captivity, and the sword to those who are destined for the sword. 12 I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and carry them away captive. As a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, so he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt, and he will depart from there unscathed. 13 He will also break down the sacred obelisks of the sun temple in the land of Egypt, and he will burn with fire the temples of the gods of the Egypt” ’.”