Jeremiah Taken to Egypt
1When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of Yahweh their God—everything that Yahweh had sent him to say— 2Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’ 3Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, so that they may put us to death or exile us to Babylon!”
4So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces disobeyed the command of Yahweh to stay in the land of Judah. 5Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered, 6the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
- JER 43:6[FULFILLS]Baruch's life would be spared wherever he went ← JER 45:5MEDIUM
7So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of Yahweh, and they went as far as Tahpanhes.
8Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes: 9“In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes.
- JER 43:9[NOTE]TAHPANHES. An Egyptian border fort on the eastern edge of the Nile delta, called Daphnae by the Greeks.
10Then tell them that this is what Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them. 11He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.
- JER 43:10[PROPHECY]Nebuchadnezzar would set his throne in Egypt and strike the land → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar marched on Egypt in 568 BC. Found on a Babylonian tablet and recorded by Josephus.MEDIUM
12I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed. 13He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”
- JER 43:12[DEMONIC]Babylon will burn the temples of Egypt's gods