Azariah the (A)son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are (B)telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’; but (C)Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us in order to hand us over to the Chaldeans, so they will put us to death or exile us to Babylon!” So (D)Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, (E)did not obey the voice of the Lord to (F)stay in the land of Judah.

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Azariah son of Hoshaiah(A) and Johanan(B) son of Kareah and all the arrogant(C) men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying!(D) The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’(E) But Baruch(F) son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians,[a] so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.”(G)

So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people(H) disobeyed the Lord’s command(I) to stay in the land of Judah.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 43:3 Or Chaldeans