1 ARST So I finished telling to the people that message from Yahweh our God. BSB BSB: When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—
2 ARST But then Johanan son of Kareah and Azariah son of Hoshaiah and some other insolent men said to me,“You are lying! Yahweh our God has not told us that we should not go to Egypt! BSB BSB: Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’
3 ARST We think that Baruch son of Neriah has urged you to say this, in order that if we stay here, the soldiers from Babylonia will seize us and kill us or take us to Babylonia.” BSB BSB: Rather, 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!”
4 ARST So Johanan and the other leaders of the Judean soldiers and many of the other people who were there refused to obey Yahweh’ s command to stay in Judah. BSB BSB: So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces disobeyed the command of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah.
5 ARST Johanan and all the other leaders gathered together all the people who had returned from the other countries to which they had been scattered. BSB BSB: Instead, 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,
6 ARST They included men, women, children, the king’ s daughters, and all those whom Nebuzaradan had left with Gedaliah, and they also took Baruch and me. BSB BSB: the 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.
7 ARST They refused to obey Yahweh, and they took us all to Egypt, as far as the city of Tahpanhes. BSB BSB: So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they went as far as Tahpanhes.
8 ARST While we were at Tachpanches, Yahweh gave me another message. He said, BSB BSB: Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:
9 ARST “While the people of Judah are watching you, take some large rocks and bury them under the brick pavement at the entrance to the king’ s palace there at Tachpanches. BSB BSB: “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.
10 ARST Then say to the people of Judah,‘This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says:“I will summon Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, who does my work, to come with his army to Egypt. I will set up his throne over these stones that I told Jeremiah to bury. And Nebuchadnezzar will set up his tent there to show that he has become the king of Egypt. BSB BSB: Then tell them that this is what the LORD 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.
11 ARST When his army comes, they will attack Egypt. Then those will die who I have determined must die, those who I have determined must be captured will be captured, and those who I have determined must be killed by swords will be killed by swords. BSB BSB: He 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.
12 ARST Nebuchadnezzar’ s soldiers will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt and take away their idols as souvenirs. His troops will clean Egypt like a shepherd cleans lice from his cloak and leave without having been harmed. BSB BSB: I 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.
13 ARST But before they leave, they will have torn down the pillars that are in the temple of their sun god and burned all of the temple of the false Egyptian gods.”’” BSB BSB: He 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.’”
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