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Jeremiah 43 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jeremiah Taken to Egypt

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:1 -

But it happened that as soon as Jeremiah, whom Yahweh their God had sent, had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God—that is, all these words

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are speaking a lie! Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to sojourn there’;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:3 - but Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us to give us over into the hand of the Chaldeans, so they will put us to death or exile us to Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:4 - So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the [fn]commanders of the military forces and all the people did not listen to the voice of Yahweh to stay in the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:5 - But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the [fn]commanders of the military forces took the entire remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations to which they had been banished, in order to sojourn in the land of Judah
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - the men, the women, the little ones, the king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam [fn]and grandson of Shaphan, together with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:7 - and they entered the land of Egypt (for they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh) and went in as far as Tahpanhes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:8 -

Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:9 - “Take some large stones in your [fn]hands and hide them in the mortar in the [fn]brick terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of [fn]some of the Jews;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:10 - and you will say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am going to send and get Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:11 - “He will also come and strike the land of Egypt; those who are meant for death will be given over to death, and those for captivity to captivity, and those for the sword to the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:12 - “And [fn]I shall set fire to the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - “He will also shatter the [fn]sacred pillars of [fn]Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire.”’”
LSB Footnotes
Or princes
Or princes
Lit the son
Lit hand
Or brickwork
Lit men
Some ancient versions He will set
Or obelisks
The house of the sun-god; Heb Beth-shemesh
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