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Jeremiah 43

43 When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words that the Eternal their God had sent him to deliver to them, 2 Azariah the son of Maaseiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and the rest of that insolent group, said to Jeremiah, “You are a liar; the Eternal our God never sent you to forbid us to go and settle in Egypt; 3 it is Baruch the son of Neriah who is setting you against us! He would have us handed over to the Chaldeans to be killed or carried prisoners to Babylon.”

4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, with all the other leaders of the Jewish forces and all the people, refused to obey the Eternal’s order to remain in the country of Judah; 5 Johanan the son of Kareah and all the other leaders took the survivors in Judah, who had come back to settle in the country, 6 men, women, and children, princesses, every person who had been entrusted by Nebuzaradan the commander-in-chief to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and the grandson of Shaphan, took them all, including the prophet Jeremiah and Baruch the son of Neriah; 7 heedless of what the Eternal said, they entered the land of Egypt and reached Daphne.

8 At Daphne this message from the Eternal came to Jeremiah: 9 “Take some large stones in your hand, let some of the Jews see you hiding them secretly under the paved court in front of the entry to the Pharaoh’s house at Daphne, 10 and tell them that this is what the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am sending for my servant Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, who shall erect his throne over these stones that you have buried, spreading his state carpet on the top of them. 11 He shall come to ravage the land of Egypt, inflicting death on those who are doomed to die, capturing those doomed to be imprisoned, and putting to the sword those who are doomed to the sword; 12 he shall set fire to the temples of the gods in Egypt, burning them and carrying off the idols; he shall scour the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks vermin out of his plaid; 13 he shall demolish the obelisks of Beth-shemesh, and then leave unmolested.’ ”