Jeremiah 43:1–7

Jeremiah’s Counsel Rejected

43When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God—all these words the Lord their God had sent him to give them— ²then Azariah ^ason of Hoshaiah, ^bJohanan son of Kareah, and all the other arrogant men responded to Jeremiah, “You are speaking a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to live there for a while!’ ³Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans to put us to death or to deport us to Babylon!”

⁴So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies did not obey the voice of the Lord to stay in the land of Judah. ⁵Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took the whole remnant of Judah, ^cthose who had returned from all the nations where they had been banished to live in the land of Judah for a while— ⁶the men, women, children, king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, ^dalong with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah— ⁷and they went to the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the Lord. They went as far as Tahpanhes. ^e