Jeremiah 43:1–7

So Jeremiah finished telling the people the message from the Lord their God; he told them everything the Lord their God had sent him to tell them.

²Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and some other men were too proud. They said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to live there.’ ³Baruch son of Neriah is causing you to be against us. He wants you to hand us over to the Babylonians so they can kill us or capture us and take us to Babylon.”

⁴So Johanan, the army officers, and all the people disobeyed the Lord’s command to stay in Judah. ⁵But Johanan son of Kareah and the army officers led away those who were left alive from Judah. They were the people who had run away from the Babylonians to other countries but then had come back to live in Judah. ⁶They led away the men, women, and children, and the king’s daughters. Nebuzaradan commander of the guard had put Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan in charge of those people. Johanan also took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah. ⁷These people did not listen to the Lord. So they all went to Egypt to the city of Tahpanhes.