Jeremiah 43:1–7

Jeremiah Taken to Egypt

43When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them, ²Azariah the son of ^lHoshaiah and ^mJohanan the son of Kareah and ⁿall the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ^o‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’ ³but ^pBaruch the son of Neriah ^qhas set you against us, ^rto deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon.” ⁴So ^mJohanan the son of Kareah and all ^sthe commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Judah. ⁵But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took ^tall the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven— ^6uthe men, the women, the children, ^vthe princesses, and every person whom ^wNebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with ^xGedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah. ⁷And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at ^yTahpanhes.