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When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God - everything the Lord had sent him to tell them -
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Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are lying! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ’You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’ SCode Psa 86:14 Isa 13:11 Jer 42:1 Jer 40:8 Jer 42:19 Mal 4:1
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But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon." SCode Jer 32:12 Jer 37:13 Jer 38:22~23
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So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people disobeyed the Lord’s command to stay in the land of Judah. SCode Jer 43:2 Jer 40:13
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Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers led away all the remnant of Judah who had come back to live in the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been scattered. SCode Jer 40:11~12
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They also led away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan - the men, the women, the children and the king’s daughters. And they took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah along with them. SCode Jer 40:7 Jer 39:10 Jer 39:14 Jer 44:20
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So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes. SCode Isa 30:4 Jer 44:1 Jer 46:14 Jer 2:16
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In Tahpanhes the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: SCode Jer 43:7
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"While the Jews are watching, take some large stones with you and bury them in clay in the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes. SCode Jer 43:7
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Then say to them, ’This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones I have buried here; he will spread his royal canopy above them. SCode Jer 25:9 Jer 1:15
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He will come and attack Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword. SCode Jer 15:2 Jer 44:13 Jer 46:13
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He will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt; he will burn their temples and take their gods captive. As a shepherd picks his garment clean of lice, so he will pick Egypt clean and depart. SCode Exo 12:12 Psa 104:2 Isa 19:1 Isa 49:18 Jer 48:7 Jer 46:25 Jer 17:27 Ezk 30:13
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There in the temple of the sun in Egypt he will demolish the sacred pillars and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’" SCode Exo 23:24 Jer 43:12
NIV Footnotes
  1. 43:3 Or Chaldeans
  2. 43:13 Or in Heliopolis
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