Jeremiah 43:1–7

Jeremiah Is Taken to Egypt

43I finished telling the people everything that the Lord their God had sent me to tell them. ²Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other arrogant men said to me, “You are lying. The Lord our God did not send you to tell us not to go and live in Egypt. ³Baruch son of Neriah has stirred you up against us, so that the Babylonians will gain power over us and can either kill us or take us away to Babylonia.” ⁴So neither Johanan nor any of the army officers nor any of the people would obey the Lord’s command to remain in the land of Judah. ^5*Then Johanan and all the army officers took everybody left in Judah away to Egypt, together with all the people who had returned from the nations where they had been scattered: ^6*the men, the women, the children, and the king’s daughters. They took everyone whom Nebuzaradan the commanding officer had left under the care of Gedaliah, including Baruch and me. ^7*They disobeyed the Lord’s command and went into Egypt as far as the city of Tahpanhes.