1When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God – everything the Lord had sent him to tell them – 2Azariah son of Hoshaiah and 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 settle there.” 3But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians,43:3 Or Chaldeans so that they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.’
4So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people disobeyed the Lord’s command to stay in the land of Judah. 5Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers led away all the remnant of Judah who had come back to live in the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been scattered. 6They also led away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan – the men, the women, the children and the king’s daughters. And they took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah along with them. 7So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes.
8In Tahpanhes the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 9‘While the Jews are watching, take some large stones with you and bury them in clay in the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes. 10Then say to them, “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones I have buried here; he will spread his royal canopy above them. 11He will come and attack Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword. 12He will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt; he will burn their temples and take their gods captive. As a shepherd picks his garment clean of lice, so he will pick Egypt clean and depart. 13There in the temple of the sun43:13 Or in Heliopolis in Egypt he will demolish the sacred pillars and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.” ’
耶利米被帶到埃及
1耶利米向眾人宣告了他們的上帝耶和華的話，就是他們的上帝耶和華派他去說的一切話。 2何沙雅的兒子亞撒利雅、加利亞的兒子約哈難和一些狂妄之徒對耶利米說：「你在撒謊！我們的上帝耶和華並沒有派你來告訴我們不可去埃及住。 3是尼利亞的兒子巴錄慫恿你反對我們，好叫我們落在迦勒底人手中，任由他們宰殺或擄到巴比倫。」 4於是，加利亞的兒子約哈難和眾將領及民眾都不聽從耶和華讓他們留在猶大的命令。 5-7加利亞的兒子約哈難和眾將領率領民眾下到埃及的答比匿。民眾中有流亡到各國又返回猶大的餘民和護衛長尼布撒拉旦留給沙番的孫子、亞希甘的兒子基大利管理的男女婦孺、公主以及耶利米先知和尼利亞的兒子巴錄。他們沒有聽從耶和華的命令。
8耶和華在答比匿對耶利米說： 9「你當著猶大人的面搬幾塊大石頭，埋在答比匿的法老宮門前的磚路下面， 10然後告訴他們以色列的上帝——萬軍之耶和華說，『看啊，我必召來我的僕人巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒，把他的寶座安置在我讓你埋的石頭上面，他要在上面搭起他的帳篷。 11他要前來攻打埃及，叫那些該死的死、該被擄的被擄、該被殺的被殺。 12他要焚燒埃及的神廟，擄走神像；他要像牧人披上外衣一樣輕而易舉地征服埃及，然後安然離去。 13他要摧毀埃及太陽神廟的神柱，燒毀埃及的神廟。』」
