1 Now when Jeremiah finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God, all these words with which the LORD their God had sent him to them,
2 Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, "Falsehood is what you are speaking! The LORD our God did not send you to say, 'Do not go into Egypt to sojourn there.'
3 Rather, Baruch the son of Neriah is stirring you up against us, to hand us over to the Chaldeans, to kill us or exile us to Babylon."
4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not listen to the voice of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah.
5 Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah who had come back from all the nations where they had been scattered, to live in the land of Judah:
6 the men, the women and the little ones, the king's daughters and every soul that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, and the prophet Jeremiah and Baruch the son of Neriah.
7 They went into the land of Egypt, for they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, and they came to Tahpanhes.
8 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:
9 "Take in your hand large stones and bury them in the mortar, in the brickwork at the entrance to Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of men of Judah,
10 and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: See, I am sending for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones I have buried, and he will spread his canopy over them.
11 He will come and strike the land of Egypt: whoever is for death, to death; whoever is for captivity, to captivity; whoever is for the sword, to the sword.
12 I will set fire to the houses of the gods of Egypt; he will burn them and take them captive; he will wrap the land of Egypt around himself as a shepherd wraps his garment around himself, and he will go out from there in peace.
13 He will shatter the standing pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire.'"