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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 43 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/43.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/43-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Jeremiah 43</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/42.htm" title="Jeremiah 42">◄</a> Jeremiah 43 <a href="../jeremiah/44.htm" title="Jeremiah 44">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/jeremiah/43.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jeremiah Taken to Egypt</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When Jeremiah had finished giving this message from the LORD their God to all the people, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other proud men said to Jeremiah, “You lie! The LORD our God hasn’t forbidden us to go to Egypt! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Baruch son of Neriah has convinced you to say this, because he wants us to stay here and be killed by the Babylonians<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> or be carried off into exile.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So Johanan and the other military leaders and all the people refused to obey the LORD’s command to stay in Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Johanan and the other leaders took with them all the people who had returned from the nearby countries to which they had fled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In the crowd were men, women, and children, the king’s daughters, and all those whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had left with Gedaliah. The prophet Jeremiah and Baruch were also included. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The people refused to obey the voice of the LORD and went to Egypt, going as far as the city of Tahpanhes.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then at Tahpanhes, the LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“While the people of Judah are watching, take some large rocks and bury them under the pavement stones at the entrance of Pharaoh’s palace here in Tahpanhes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then say to the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring my servant Nebuchadnezzar,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> king of Babylon, here to Egypt. I will set his throne over these stones that I have hidden. He will spread his royal canopy over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And when he comes, he will destroy the land of Egypt. He will bring death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and war to those destined for war. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He will set fire to the temples of Egypt’s gods; he will burn the temples and carry the idols away as plunder. He will pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks fleas from his cloak. And he himself will leave unharmed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/43-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He will break down the sacred pillars standing in the temple of the sun<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> in Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of Egypt’s gods.’”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">43:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Chaldeans.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">43:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Nebuchadrezzar,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">43:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">in Heliopolis.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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