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  • Jeremiah 43:1View Full Chapter

    Off to Egypt with Jeremiah and Baruch

    43 When Jeremiah finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God—he didn’t omit anything the Lord sent him to convey—

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    Azariah, Hoshaiah’s son, and Johanan, Kareah’s son, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You’re lying to us! The Lord our God didn’t send you to tell us not to go to Egypt to live.

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    men, women, children, the king’s daughters, everyone Nebuzaradan the captain of the special guard had left with Gedaliah, Ahikam’s son and Shaphan’s grandson, including Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch, Neriah’s son.

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    The Lord’s word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes:

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    Jeremiah’s final words to Judeans in Egypt

    44 Jeremiah received the Lord’s word for the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, those living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis and in the land of Pathros.

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    15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, along with the great crowd of women who were present, as well as the people living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, all answered Jeremiah:

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    20 Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women alike, in fact everyone who had spoken this way:

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    24 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including the women: Listen to the Lord’s word, all you Judeans in the land of Egypt.

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    A final word for Baruch

    45 In the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, Baruch was writing in a scroll the words that Jeremiah was dictating to him. Jeremiah the prophet told Baruch, Neriah’s son:

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    ORACLES CONCERNING THE NATIONS

    46 This is what the Lord told the prophet Jeremiah concerning the nations.

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    Introduction

    These are the words of Jeremiah, Hilkiah’s son, who was one of the priests from Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. The Lord’s word came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of Judah’s King Josiah, Amon’s son, and throughout the rule of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, Josiah’s son, when the people of Jerusalem were taken into exile.

    Call of Jeremiah

    The Lord’s word came to me:

    “Before I created you in the womb I knew you;
        before you were born I set you apart;
        I made you a prophet to the nations.”
    “Ah, Lord God,” I said, “I don’t know how to speak
        because I’m only a child.”
    The Lord responded,
        “Don’t say, ‘I’m only a child.’
            Where I send you, you must go;
            what I tell you, you must say.
    Don’t be afraid of them,
        because I’m with you to rescue you,”
            declares the Lord.
    Then the Lord stretched out his hand,
        touched my mouth, and said to me,
        “I’m putting my words in your mouth.
    10 This very day I appoint you over nations and empires,
        to dig up and pull down,
        to destroy and demolish,
        to build and plant.”

    Jeremiah’s mission confirmed

    11 The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

    I said, “A branch of an almond tree.”

    12 The Lord then said, “You are right, for I’m watching over my word until it is fulfilled.” 13 The Lord asked me again, “What do you see?”

    I said, “A pot boiling over from the north.”

    14 The Lord said to me, “Trouble will erupt from the north against the people of this land.”

    15 I’m calling for all the tribes of great nations from the north, says the Lord, and they will set up their rulers by the entrances of Jerusalem, on its walls, and in every city of Judah. 16 I will declare my judgment against them for doing evil: for abandoning me, worshipping other gods, and trusting in the works of their hands. 17 But you must prepare for battle and be ready to utter every word I command you. Don’t be frightened before them, or I will frighten you before them. 18 Today I have made you an armed city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the entire land—the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and all its people. 19 They will attack you, but they won’t defeat you, because I am with you and will rescue you, declares the Lord.

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