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Jeremiah 43 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Jeremiah Taken to Egypt

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:1 - When Jeremiah had finished giving this message from the LORD their God to all the people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other proud men said to Jeremiah, “You lie! The LORD our God hasn’t forbidden us to go to Egypt!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:3 - Baruch son of Neriah has convinced you to say this, because he wants us to stay here and be killed by the Babylonians[fn] or be carried off into exile.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:4 - So Johanan and the other guerrilla leaders and all the people refused to obey the LORD’s command to stay in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:5 - Johanan and the other leaders took with them all the people who had returned from the nearby countries to which they had fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - In the crowd were men, women, and children, the king’s daughters, and all those whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had left with Gedaliah. The prophet Jeremiah and Baruch were also included.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:7 - The people refused to obey the voice of the LORD and went to Egypt, going as far as the city of Tahpanhes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:8 - Then at Tahpanhes, the LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:9 - “While the people of Judah are watching, take some large rocks and bury them under the pavement stones at the entrance of Pharaoh’s palace here in Tahpanhes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:10 - Then say to the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring my servant Nebuchadnezzar,[fn] king of Babylon, here to Egypt. I will set his throne over these stones that I have hidden. He will spread his royal canopy over them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:11 - And when he comes, he will destroy the land of Egypt. He will bring death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and war to those destined for war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:12 - He will set fire to the temples of Egypt’s gods; he will burn the temples and carry the idols away as plunder. He will pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks fleas from his cloak. And he himself will leave unharmed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - He will break down the sacred pillars standing in the temple of the sun[fn] in Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of Egypt’s gods.’”
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Or Chaldeans.
Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.
Or in Heliopolis.
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Jeremiah Chapter 43 — Additional Translations:

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