Jeremiah 42:7-Jeremiah 43:7 - The Remnant Rejects The Word Of Yahweh

⁷ Ten days later Jehovah spoke to me. ⁸ I called together Johanan, all the army leaders who were with him, and all the other people.

⁹ I said to them, Jehovah, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me with your request said: ¹⁰ If you are willing to go on living in this land I will build you up and not tear you down. I will plant you and not uproot you. The destruction I brought on you has caused me great sorrow. ¹¹ Stop being afraid of the king of Babylon. I am with you. I will rescue you from his power.' ¹² For the reason that I am merciful, I will make him have mercy on you and let you go back home. I Jehovah have spoken. ¹³ If you say: We will not stay in this land, and you disobey Jehovah your God. ¹⁴ Then you say: We will go to Egypt, where we will not have to see war, hear the sound of a ram's horn, or be hungry. We will stay there. ¹⁵ Listen to the word of Jehovah, you people who are left in Judah. This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Suppose you are determined to go to Egypt, and you go and live there. ¹⁶ Then the war that you fear will overtake you, and the hunger you dread will follow you, and you will die there in Egypt. ¹⁷ All the people who are determined to go and live in Egypt will die either in war or of starvation or disease. Not one of them will survive, not one will escape the disaster that I am going to bring on them.'

¹⁸ Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: 'Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of you and use your name as a curse. You will never see this place again.' ¹⁹ Then I continued: Jehovah has told you people who are left in Judah not to go to Egypt. And so I warn you now. ²⁰ You are making a fatal mistake. You asked me to pray to Jehovah our God for you, and you promised that you would do everything that he commands. ²¹ Now I have told you, but you are disobeying everything that Jehovah our God sent me to tell you. ²² So then, remember this: you will die in war or of starvation or disease in the land where you want to go and live.

¹ As soon as Jeremiah, whom Jehovah their God had sent, had finished telling all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, that is, all these words, ² Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant (egotistical) men said to Jeremiah: You are telling a lie! Jehovah our God has not sent you to say: 'You are not to enter Egypt to reside there. ³ Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us to give us over into the hand of the Chaldeans. They will put us to death or exile us to Babylon.

⁴ So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of Jehovah and stay in the land of Judah. ⁵ But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the entire remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been driven away, in order to reside in the land of Judah. ⁶ They took men, women, children, and the king's daughters. They took every person whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had left with Gedaliah, son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, including the prophet Jeremiah and Baruch, son of Neriah. ⁷ They did not listen to Jehovah. They went to Egypt. They went as far as Tahpanhes.