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while Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the Guard, the
Lord gave him this second message.
This is what the Lord says, the Lord who made the earth, who formed and
established it, whose name is the Lord?
Ask me.
And I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come for.
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says.
You have torn down the houses of this city and even the king's palace to get
materials to strengthen the walls against the siege, ramps and swords of the enemy.
You expect to fight the Babylonians, but the men of this city are
already as good as dead for.
I have determined to destroy them in my terrible anger.
I have abandoned them because of all their wickedness.
Nevertheless.
The time will come when I will heal Jerusalem's wounds and give
it prosperity and true peace.
I will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel and rebuild their towns.
I will cleanse them of their sins against me and forgive
all their sins of rebellion.
Then this city will bring me joy, glory, and honor before
all the nations of the earth.
The people of the world will see all the good I do for my people.
And they will tremble with awe at the peace and prosperity I provide for them.
This is what the Lord says You have said.
This is a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared,
yet in the empty streets of Jerusalem and Judah's other towns,
there will be heard once more.
The sounds of joy and laughter, the joyful voices of bridegrooms
and brides will be heard again.
Along with the joyous songs of people bringing Thanksgiving offerings
to the Lord, they will sing.
Give thanks to the Lord of heaven's armies.
For the Lord is good.
His faithful love endures forever.
For I will restore the prosperity of this land to what it was
in the past, says the Lord.
This is what the Lord of heaven's armies says.
This land, though it is now desolate and has no people and animals.
Will once more have pastures where shepherds can lead their flocks.
Once again, shepherds will count their flocks in the towns of the hill country,
the foothills of Judah, the Negev, the land of Benjamin, the vicinity of
Jerusalem, and all the towns of Judah.
I, the Lord have spoken the day will come, says the Lord, when I
will do for Israel and Judah all the good things I have promised them.
In those days, and at that time, I will raise up a righteous
descendant from King David's line.
He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
In that day, Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in
safety, and this will be its name.
The Lord is our righteousness for this is what the Lord says.
David will have a descendant sitting on the throne of Israel forever.
And there will always be Levitical priests to offer burnt offerings and
grain offerings and sacrifices to me.
Then this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord.
This is what the Lord says.
If you can break my covenant with the day and the night, so that one does
not follow the other, only then will my covenant with my servant David be broken.
Only then will he no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.
The same is true for my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before
me, and as the stars of the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore
cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of my servant David
and the Levites who minister before me.
The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah.
He said, have you noticed what people are saying?
The Lord chose Judah and Israel and then abandoned them.
They are sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be counted as a
nation, but this is what the Lord says.
I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws that
govern night and day, earth and sky.
I will never abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my servant,
or change the plan that David's descendants will rule the descendants
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Instead, I will restore them to their land.
And have mercy on them.
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with all the armies from the kingdoms
he ruled and he fought against Jerusalem and the towns of Judah.
At that time, this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord, go to King
Zakiah of Judah and tell him, this is what the Lord the God of Israel says.
I'm about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
You will not escape his grasp, but will be captured and taken to meet
the king of Babylon face to face.
Then you will be exiled to Babylon.
But listen to this promise from the Lord Oze, king of Judah.
This is what the Lord says.
You will not be killed in war but will die peacefully.
People will burn incense in your memory just as they did for your
ancestors, the kings who preceded you.
They will mourn for you crying.
Alas, our master is dead.
This I have decreed, says the Lord.
So Jeremiah the prophet, delivered the message to Kings Zakiah of Judah.
At this time, the Babylonian army was Besieging Jerusalem, lake ish and E Zika.
The only fortified cities of Judah not yet captured.
This message came to Jeremiah from the Lord.
After Kings, Akia made a covenant with the people proclaiming freedom for the slaves.
He had ordered all the people to free their Hebrew slaves, both men and women.
No one was to keep a fellow Judean in bondage the officials and all the
people had obeyed the King's command, but later they changed their minds.
They took back the men and women they had freed, forcing them to be slaves again.
So the Lord gave them this message through Jeremiah.
This is what the Lord the God of Israel says.
I made a covenant with your ancestors long ago when I rescued
them from their slavery in Egypt.
I told them that every Hebrew slave must be freed after serving six years, but
your ancestors paid no attention to me.
Recently you repented and did what was right following my command.
You freed your slaves and made a solemn covenant with me in
the temple that bears my name.
But now you have shrugged off your oath and defiled my name.
By taking back the men and women you had freed, forcing
them to be slaves once again.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says.
Since you have not obeyed me by setting your countrymen free.
I will set you free to be destroyed by war, disease, and famine.
You will be an object of horror to all the nations of the earth because you
have broken the terms of our covenant.
I will cut you apart just as you cut apart the calf, when you walked
between its halves to solemn your vows.
Yes, I will cut you apart whether you are officials of Judah or Jerusalem court
officials, priests, or common people.
For you have broken your oath.
I will give you to your enemies and they will kill you.
Your bodies will be food For the vultures and wild animals, I will hand over
King Zakiah of Judah and his officials to the army of the King of Babylon.
And although they have left Jerusalem for a while, I will call
the Babylonian armies back again.
They will fight against this city and will capture it and burn it down.
I will see to it that all the towns of Judah are destroyed
with no one living there.
This is the message the Lord gave Jeremiah when Je Jolla Kim, son of Josiah was
king of Judah, go to the settlement where the families of the recites live
and invite them to the Lord's temple.
Take them into one of the inner rooms and offer them some wine.
So I went to see Jay Zania, son of Jeremiah and grandson of Haba
Anaya, and all his brothers and sons representing all the IDE families.
I took them to the temple and we went into the room assigned to the sons of
Hanan, son of ig Deliah, a man of God.
This room was located next to the one used by the temple officials
directly above the room of Meia, son of Shalom, the temple gatekeeper.
I set cups and jugs of wine before them and invited them to
have a drink, but they refused.
No, they said We don't drink wine because our ancestor, Jehova AB
son of rehab, gave us this command.
You and your descendants must never drink wine and do not
build houses or plant crops or vineyards, but always live in tents.
If you follow these commands, you will live long good lives in the land.
So we have obeyed him in all these things.
We have never had a drink of wine to this day, nor have our
wives, our sons, or our daughters.
We haven't built houses or owned vineyards or farms or planted crops.
We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed all the commands
of jeh dab our ancestor.
But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked this country, we were afraid
of the Babylonian and Syrian armies.
So we decided to move to Jerusalem.
That is why we are here.
Then the Lord gave this message to Jeremiah.
This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.
Go and say to the people in Judah and Jerusalem, come and learn
a lesson about how to obey me.
The exabytes.
Do not drink wine to this day because their ancestor,
Jehan dab told them not to.
I have spoken to you again and again, and you refuse to obey me.
Time after time I sent you prophets who told you, turn from your wicked
ways and start doing things right.
Stop worshiping other gods so that you might live in peace here in the land I
have given to you and your ancestors, but you would not listen to me or obey me.
The descendants of Jehan Dab son of rehab have obeyed their ancestor completely.
You have refused to listen to me.
Therefore, this is what the Lord God of heaven's armies, the God of Israel says
because you refuse to listen or answer.
When I call, I will send upon Judah and Jerusalem, all the
disasters I have threatened.
Then Jeremiah turned to the recites and said, this is what the Lord of
heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.
You have obeyed your ancestor, Jehan Daab in every respect
following all his instructions.
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.
Jehan Dabbs son of rehab will always have descendants who served me during
the fourth year that Je Hoya, Kim's son of Josiah, was king and Judah, the
Lord gave this message to Jeremiah.
Get a scroll and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah and
the other nations begin with the first message back in the days of
Josiah and write down every message right up to the present time.
Perhaps the people of Judah will repent when they hear again all the
terrible things I have planned for them.
Then I will be able to forgive their sins and wrongdoings.
So Jeremiah sent for Barrick, son of Neriah.
And as Jeremiah dictated all the prophecies that the Lord had given
him, Barrick wrote them on a scroll.
Then Jeremiah said to Barrick, I am a prisoner here and
unable to go to the temple.
So you go to the temple on the next day of fasting and read the messages from the
Lord that I have had you write on this scroll, read them so the people who are
there from all over Judah will hear them.
Perhaps even yet, they will turn from their evil ways and ask the Lord's
forgiveness before it is too late.
For the Lord has threatened them with his terrible anger.
Barrick did as Jeremiah told him, and read these messages from the
Lord to the people at the temple.
He did this on a day of sacred fasting, held in late Autumn during
the fifth year of the reign of Jo Hoya.
Kim's son of Josiah.
People from all over.
Judah had come to Jerusalem to attend the services at the temple.
On that day, Barrick read Jeremiah's words on the scroll to all the people
he stood in front of the temple, room of Giah, son of Chaffin, the secretary.
This room was just off the upper courtyard of the temple near the new gate entrance
when Mica's son of Miah and grandson of Chaffin heard the messages from the Lord.
He went down to the secretary's room in the palace where the administrative
officials were meeting Elma.
The secretary was there along with Deia, son of Shamaya, El Nathan, son of
Ak b Giah, son of Shahan, Zakiah, son of Hania, and all the other officials.
When McKay told them about the messages, Barrick was reading to
the people the officials sent.
Jedi son of Naiah, grandson of Shamiah, and great grandson of Isha to ask Barrick
to come and read the messages to them too.
So Barrick took the scroll and went to them sit down and read the scroll to us.
The officials said, and Barrick did as they requested.
When they heard all the messages, they looked at one another in alarm.
We must tell the king what we have heard they said to Barrick.
But first, tell us how you got these messages.
Did they come directly from Jeremiah?
So Barrick explained, Jeremiah dictated them and I wrote them
down in ink word for word.
On this scroll, you and Jeremiah should both hide the officials told Barrick,
don't tell anyone where you are.
Then the officials left the scroll for safekeeping in the room of
Alima, the secretary, and went to tell the king what had happened.
The king sent je Huai to get the scroll.
Je Huai brought it from Alma's room and read it to the king
as all his officials stood by.
It was late autumn, and the king was in a winterized part of the palace
sitting in front of a fire to keep warm.
Each time Jehu, I finished reading three or four columns.
The king took a knife and cut off that section of the scroll.
He then threw it into the fire section by section until the
whole scroll was burned up.
Neither the king nor his attendance showed any sign of fear or
repentance at what they heard.
Even when l Nathan Deleah and Miah begged the king not to burn
the scroll, he wouldn't listen.
Then the king commanded his son Geral, AYA, son of Israel and Shelemiah son of
Abdiel to arrest Barrack and Jeremiah.
But the Lord had hidden them after the king had burned the scroll on which
Barrack had written Jeremiah's words.
The Lord gave Jeremiah another message.
He said, get another scroll and write everything again
just as you did on the scroll.
King Je Hoya Kim burned.
Then say to the king, this is what the Lord says.
You burned the scroll because it said The King of Babylon would destroy this
land and empty it of people and animals.
Now this is what the Lord says about King Jehoiakim of Judah.
He will have no heirs to sit on the throne of David.
His dead body will be thrown out to lie Unburied exposed to the heat of
the day and the frost of the night.
I will punish him and his family and his attendance for their sins.
I will pour out on them and on all the people of Jerusalem and Judah,
all the disasters I promised for, they would not listen to my warnings.
So Jeremiah took another scroll and dictated again to his secretary Barrick.
He wrote everything that had been on the scroll.
King Je Hoya Kim had burned in the fire.
Only this time he added much more.
Zedekiah son of Josiah succeeded Je Hoya kin son of Je Hoya
Kim as the King of Judah.
He was appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, but neither King Zedekiah
nor his attendance, nor the people who were left in the land listened to
what the Lord said through Jeremiah.
Nevertheless, Kings Zakiah sent Jeal, son of Shelemiah and
Zephaniah, the priest, son of Meia.
To ask Jeremiah, please pray to the Lord our God for us.
Jeremiah had not yet been imprisoned so he could come and
go among the people as he pleased.
At this time, the army of Pharaoh, HFRA of Egypt, appeared
at the southern border of Judah.
When the Babylonian army heard about it, they withdrew from
their siege of Jerusalem.
Then the Lord gave this message to Jeremiah, this is what the
Lord the God of Israel says.
The King of Judah sent you to ask me what is going to happen?
Tell him.
Pharaoh's army is about to return to Egypt, though he came here to help you.
Then the Babylonians will come back and capture this city
and burn it to the ground.
This is what the Lord says.
Do not fool yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians are gone for good.
They aren't.
Even if you were to destroy the entire Babylonian army, leaving only
a handful of wounded survivors, they would still stagger from their tents
and burn this city to the ground.
When the Babylonian army left Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's approaching
army, Jeremiah started to leave the city on his way to the territory
of Benjamin to claim his share of the property among his relatives.
There.
But as he was walking through the Benjamin Gate, a century, arrested him and said,
you are defecting to the Babylonians.
The century making the arrest was Raja son of Shelemiah, grandson of Nanaya.
That's not true.
Jeremiah protested.
I had no intention of doing any such thing, but Rajah wouldn't listen.
And he took Jeremiah before the officials.
They were furious with Jeremiah and had him flogged and imprisoned
in the house of Jonathan.
The secretary, Jonathan's house had been converted into a prison.
Jeremiah was put into a dungeon cell where he remained for many days later, Kings at
AIA secretly requested that Jeremiah come to the palace where the king asked him,
do you have any messages from the Lord?
Yes, I do.
Said Jeremiah, you will be defeated by the king of Babylon.
Then Jeremiah asked the king, what crime have I committed?
What have I done against you, your attendance, or the people that I
should be imprisoned like this?
Where are your prophets now?
Who told you the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?
Listen, my Lord the king.
I beg you.
Don't send me back to the dungeon in the house of Jonathan, the
secretary, for I will die there.
So Kings Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be returned to the dungeon.
Instead, he was imprisoned in the courtyard of the
guard in the royal palace.
The king also commanded that Jeremiah be given a loaf of fresh bread every day as
long as there was any left in the city.
So Jeremiah was put in the palace prison.
Now Chef Aya, son of Matan, Alaya, son of Paer, Jeal, son of Shamiah
and Pacher, son of Malkia, heard what Jeremiah had been telling the people.
He had been saying.
This is what the Lord says.
Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or
disease, but those who surrender to the Babylonians will live.
Their reward will be life.
They will live.
The Lord also says the city of Jerusalem will certainly be handed
over to the army of the king of Babylon who will capture it.
So these officials went to the king and said, sir, this man must die.
That kind of talk will undermine the morale of the few fighting men we
have left, as well as that of all the people, this man is a traitor.
King Zedekiah agreed.
All right.
He said, do as you like.
I can't stop you.
So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into
an empty cistern in the prison yard.
It belonged to Mal Kaja, a member of the Royal family.
There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the
bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.
But Eed Melich, the Ethiopian, an important court official heard
that Jeremiah was in the cist turn.
At that time, the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.
So Eed Melich rushed from the palace to speak with him.
My Lord, the king.
He said.
These men have done a very evil thing in putting Jeremiah
the prophet into the cistern.
He will soon die of hunger for almost all the bread in the city is gone.
So the king told Ed Meek take 30 of my men with you and pulled Jeremiah
out of the cistern before he dies.
So Ed Meek took the men with him and went to a room in the palace beneath
the Treasury, where he found some old rags and discarded clothing.
He carried these to the cistern and lowered them to Jeremiah on a
rope, lik called down to Jeremiah, put these rags under your armpits
to protect you from the ropes.
Then when Jeremiah was ready, they pulled him out.
So Jeremiah was returned to the courtyard of the guard, the
palace prison where he remained.
One day, king Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and had him brought to the
third entrance of the Lord's temple.
I want to ask you something the king said, and don't try to hide the truth.
Jeremiah said, if I tell you the truth, you will kill me, and if I give you
advice, you won't listen to me anyway.
So King Zedekiah secretly promised him, as surely as the Lord our creator
lives, I will not kill you or hand you over to the men who want you dead.
Then Jeremiah said to Zeek, this is what the Lord God of heaven's armies.
The God of Israel says, if you surrender to the Babylonian officers,
you and your family will live and the city will not be burned down.
But if you refuse to surrender, you will not escape.
This city will be handed over to the Babylonians and they will burn it to
the ground, but I'm afraid to surrender.
The king said for the Babylonians may hand me over to the Judeans
who have defected to them, and who knows what they will do to me.
Jeremiah replied, you won't be handed over to them.
If you choose to obey the Lord, your life will be spared
and all will go well for you.
But if you refuse to surrender, This is what the Lord has revealed to me.
All the women left in your palace will be brought out and given to
the officers of the Babylonian army.
Then the women will taunt you saying what fine friends you have,
they have betrayed and misled you.
When your feet sank in the mud, they left you to your fate.
All your wives and children will be led out to the Babylonians
and you will not escape.
You will be seized by the king of Babylon and this city will be burned down.
Then Zeek said to Jeremiah, don't tell anyone you told me this or you will die.
My officials may hear that I spoke to you, and they may say, tell us what
you and the king were talking about.
If you don't tell us, we will kill you.
If this happens, just tell them, you begged me not to send you back
to Jonathan's dungeon for fear.
You would die there.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before the King's officials came to Jeremiah
and asked him why the king had called for him, but Jeremiah followed the
king's instructions and they left without finding out the truth.
No one had overheard the conversation between Jeremiah and the king and
Jeremiah remained a prisoner in the courtyard of the guard until
the day Jerusalem was captured.
In January of the ninth year of King's Zia's Reign, king Nebuchadnezzar
of Babylon came with his entire army to besiege Jerusalem.
Two and a half years later, on July 18th, in the 11th year of Zia's Reign, a
section of the city wall was broken down.
All the officers of the Babylonian army came in and sat
in triumph at the middle gate.
Neal Shaer of Samar and Nebo Sikkim, a Chief officer, and Neal Shaer,
the King's advisor and all the other officers of the King of Babylon.
When Kings Akia of Judah and all the soldiers saw that the Babylonians
had broken into the city, they fled.
They waited for nightfall, and then slipped through the gate between the
two walls, behind the King's Garden, and headed toward the Jordan Valley.
But the Babylonian troops chased them and overtook Zeek on the plains of Jericho.
They captured him and took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who
was at Rla in the land of Hamoth.
There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zetia.
The king of Babylon made Kyle watch as he slaughtered his sons at rla.
The King of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.
Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in bronze chains
to lead him away to Babylon.
Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned Jerusalem, including the royal palace
and the houses of the people, and they tore down the walls of the city.
Then Neba Zain, the captain of the guard, took as exiles to Babylon.
The rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had defected
to him and everyone else who remained, but Neba Zain allowed some of the
poorest people to stay behind in the land of Judah, and he assigned them
to care for the vineyards and fields.
King Nebuchadnezzar had told Nein the captain of the guard to find Jeremiah,
see that he isn't hurt, he said.
Look after him well, and give him anything he wants.
So, NEBA Zain, the captain of the Guard, NEBA Shaman, a Chief Officer Neal Shazer,
the King's advisor, and the other officers of Babylon's King, sent messengers
to bring Jeremiah out of the prison.
They put him under the care of Alaya, son of a Haiku and grandson of
Shahan, who took him back to his home.
So Jeremiah stayed in Judah among his own people.
The Lord had given the following message to Jeremiah while he was still in prison.
Say to EBIT, Melik, the Ethiopian.
This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel
says, I will do to this city.
Everything I have threatened, I will send disaster, not prosperity.
You will see its destruction, but I will rescue you from those.
You fear so much because you trusted me.
I will give you your life as a reward.
I will rescue you and keep you safe.
I, the Lord have spoken.
The Lord gave a message to Jeremiah.
After Nein, the captain of the Guard had released him at Rama.
He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the other captives
of Jerusalem and Judah, who are being sent to exile in Babylon.
The captain of the guard called for Jeremiah and said, the Lord your God
has brought this disaster on this land.
Just as he said he would.
For these people have sinned against the Lord and disobeyed him.
That is why it happened.
But I'm going to take off your chains and let you go.
If you want to come with me to Babylon, you are welcome.
I will see that you are well cared for.
But if you don't want to come, you may stay here.
The whole land is before you go wherever you like.
If you decide to stay, then return to G Elias, son of a
haiku and grandson of Shahan.
He has been appointed governor of Judah by the king of Babylon.
Stay there with the people he rules, but it's up to you.
Go wherever you like.
Then Neba Zain, the captain of the guard, gave Jeremiah some
food and money and let him go.
So Jeremiah returned to Alaya, son of a haiku at mpa, and he lived in Judah with
the few who were still left in the land.
The leaders of the Judean military groups in the countryside heard that
the King of Babylon had appointed gal, son of a haiku as governor over the
poor people who were left behind in Judah, the men, women, and children
who hadn't been exiled to Babylon.
So they went to see gal at mpa.
These included Ishmael, son of Haniya, Johannan, and Jonathan
Sons of Korea, Reya son of 10.
Hum.
The Sons of Phi, the Nite Siah son of the Meite, and all their
men get Aya vowed to them that the Babylonians meant them no harm.
Don't be afraid to serve them live in the land and serve the king of
Babylon and all will go well for you.
He promised as for me, I will stay at SBA to represent you before the
Babylonians who come to meet with us.
Settle in the towns you have taken and live off the land, harvest
the grapes and summer fruits and olives, and store them away.
When the judeans in Moab, Amon Edem, and the other nearby countries heard
that the King of Babylon had left a few people in Judah, and that Giah was the
governor, they began to return to Judah from the places to which they had fled.
They stopped at MPA to meet with Alaya.
Then went into the Judean countryside to gather a great
harvest of grapes and other crops.
Soon after this Johanan son of Korea and the other military leaders came to
Alaya at mpa, they said to him, did you know that Baus King of Amman has sent
Ishmael son of Aniah to assassinate you, but get Aliyah refused to believe them.
Later Johanan had a private conference with Gia and volunteered
to kill Ishmael secretly.
Why should we let him come and murder you?
Johanan asked What will happen then to the Judeans who have returned?
Why should the few of us who are still left be scattered and lost?
But Gia said to Johanan, I forbid you to do any such thing for
you are lying about Ishmael.
But in mid autumn of that year, Ishmael son of Niah and grandson of Eima, who
was a member of the royal family and had been one of the king's high officials,
went to SBA with 10 men to meet Alaya.
While they were eating together, Ishmael and his 10 men suddenly jumped up, drew
their swords, and killed Alaya, whom the King of Babylon had appointed Governor.
Ishmael also killed all the Judeans and the Babylonian
soldiers who were with gal at Ms.
Pa the next day before anyone had heard about gal's murder, 80 men arrived
from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria to worship at the temple of the Lord.
They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut
themselves, and had brought along grain offerings and frankincense.
Ishmael left MSPA to meet them weeping as he went.
When he reached them, he said, oh, come and see what has happened to Alaya.
But as soon as they were all inside the town, Ishmael and his
men killed all but 10 of them and threw their bodies into a cistern.
The other 10 had talked Ishmael into letting them go by promising to bring
him their stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey that they had hidden
away the cistern where Ishmael dumped the bodies of the men he murdered.
Was the large one dug by King Asa when he fortified MPA to protect
himself against King Beha of Israel.
Ishmael, son of Haniya filled it with corpses.
Then Ishmael made captives of the King's daughters and the other people
who had been left under GT Elia's care in MPA by Nein, the captain of
the guard taking them with him, he started back toward the land of Amman.
But when Johannen son of Korea and the other military leaders heard
about Ishmael's crimes, they took all their men and set out to stop him.
They caught up with him at the large pool near Gibeon.
The people Ishmael had captured shouted for joy when they saw
Johannen and the other military leaders and all the captives from MPA
escaped and began to help Johanan.
Meanwhile, Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johannen
into the land of Amman.
Then Johann's son of Korea and the other military leaders took all the people
they had rescued in Gibeon, the soldiers, women, children, and court officials
who Ishmael had captured after he killed Aliyah, they took them all to the
village of Guru Kimm Ham near Bethlehem, where they prepared to leave for Egypt.
They were afraid of what the Babylonians would do when they heard that Ishmael
had killed Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonian King.
Then all the military leaders, including Johanan, son of Korea and Zeniah son, OFE,
and all the people from the least to the greatest approached Jeremiah, the prophet.
They said, please pray to the Lord your God for us.
As you can see, we are only a tiny remnant compared to what we were before.
Pray the Lord your God will show us what to do and where to go.
All right, Jeremiah replied, I will pray to the Lord your God, as you have
asked, and I will tell you everything.
He says, I will hide nothing from you.
Then they said to Jeremiah, may the Lord your God be a faithful
witness against us if we refuse to obey whatever he tells us to do.
Whether we like it or not, we will obey the Lord our God to whom we
are sending you with our plea for.
If we obey him, everything will turn out well for us.
10 days later, the Lord gave his reply to Jeremiah, so he called for Johanan,
son of Korea and the other military leaders, and for all the people from
the least to the greatest, he said to them, you sent me to the Lord,
the God of Israel with your request.
And this is his reply.
Stay here in this land.
If you do, I will build you up and not tear you down.
I will plant you and not uproot you for I am sorry about all the
punishment I have had to bring upon you.
Do not fear the king of Babylon anymore, says the Lord.
For I am with you and will save you and rescue you from his power.
I will be merciful to you by making him kind.
So he will let you stay here in your land, but if you refuse to obey the
Lord your God, and if you say, we will not stay here, instead we will go to
Egypt where we will be free from war.
The call to arms and hunger, then hear the Lord's message to the remnant of Judah.
This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.
If you are determined to go to Egypt and live there, the very war and
famine you fear will catch up to you.
You will die there.
That is the fate awaiting every one of you who insists on going to live in Egypt.
Yes, you will die from war, famine, and disease.
None of you will escape the disaster I will bring upon you there.
This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says, just
as my anger and fury have been poured out on the people of Jerusalem,
So they will be poured out on you.
When you enter Egypt, you will be an object of damnation, horror,
cursing, and mockery, and you will never see your homeland again.
Listen, you remnant of Judah, the Lord has told you, do not go to Egypt.
Don't forget this warning I have given you today for you are not being honest.
When you sent me to pray to the Lord your God for you, you said, just tell us what
the Lord our God says and we will do it.
Today I have told you exactly what he said, but you will not obey the Lord your
God any better now than you have in the past, so you can be sure that you will
die from war, famine, and disease in Egypt where you insist on going when Jeremiah
had finished giving this message from the Lord their God to all the people.
Azariah, son of an johannan, son of Korea, and all the other
proud men said to Jeremiah.
You lie, the Lord our God hasn't forbidden us to go to Egypt.
Barrick's son of Neriah has convinced you to say this because he wants us
to stay here and be killed by the Babylonians or be carried off into exile.
So Johanan and the other military leaders and all the people refuse to obey the
Lord's command to stay in Judah, Johann and the other leaders took with them
all the people who had returned from the nearby countries to which they had fled.
In the crowd were men, women and children, the king's daughters, and
all those whom Neba Radden, the captain of the guard, had left with Giah.
The prophet Jeremiah and Barrack were also included.
The people refused to obey the voice of the Lord and went to Egypt,
going as far as the city of Ese.
Then at ese, the Lord gave another message to Jeremiah.
He said, 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 Japanese.
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 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.
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.
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.
He will break down the sacred pillars standing in the temple of
the Sun in Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of Egypt's Gods.
This is the message Jeremiah received concerning the Judeans living
in Northern Egypt, in the cities of amygdala, tese, and Memphis,
and in Southern Egypt as well.
This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.
You saw the calamity I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah.
They now lie deserted and in ruins, they provoked my anger
with all their wickedness.
They burned incense and worshiped other gods gods that neither they
nor you, nor any of your ancestors had ever even known again and again.
I sent my servants the prophets to plead with them.
Don't do these horrible things that I hate so much, but my people would not listen
or turn back from their wicked ways.
They kept on burning incense to these gods.
And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and
into the streets of Jerusalem, and they are still a desolate ruin today.
And now the Lord God of heaven's armies, the God of Israel, asks you,
why are you destroying yourselves for not one of you will survive.
Not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah,
not even the babies in your arms.
Why provoke my anger by burning incense to the idols you have made here in Egypt,
you will only destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and
mockery for all the nations of the earth.
Have you forgotten the sins of your ancestors, the sins of the kings and
queens of Judah, and the sins you and your wives committed in Judah
and Jerusalem to this very hour?
You have shown no remorse or reverence.
No one has chosen to follow my word and the decrees I gave to
you and your ancestors before you.
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.
I am determined to destroy every one of you.
I will take this remnant of Judah, those who are determined to come here and
live in Egypt, and I will consume them.
They will fall here in Egypt, killed by war and famine.
All will die from the least to the greatest.
They will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery.
I will punish them in Egypt just as I punished them in Jerusalem by war,
famine, and disease of that remnants.
Who fled to Egypt?
Hoping someday to return to Judah.
There will be no survivors.
Even though they long to return home, only a handful will do so.
Then all the women present and all the men who knew that their wives had burned
incense to idols, a great crowd of all the judeans living in Northern Egypt
and southern Egypt answered Jeremiah.
We will not listen to your messages from the Lord.
We will do whatever we want.
We will burn incense and pour out liquid offerings to the queen of
heaven, just as much as we like.
Just as we and our ancestors and our kings and officials have
always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.
For in those days, we had plenty to eat and we were well off and had no troubles.
Ever since we quit burning incense to the queen of heaven and stopped worshiping
her with liquid offerings, we have been in great trouble and have been dying
from war and famine besides the women added, do you suppose that we were
burning incense and pouring out liquid offerings to the queen of heaven and
making cakes marked with her image without our husbands knowing it and helping us?
Of course not.
Then Jeremiah said to all of them, men and women alike,
who had given him that answer.
Do you think the Lord did not know that you and your ancestors, your kings
and officials, and all the people were burning incense to idols in the towns of
Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
It was because the Lord could no longer bear all the disgusting
things you were doing, that he made your land an object of cursing, a
desolate ruin without inhabitants.
As it is today.
All these terrible things happen to you because you have burned incense
to idols and sinned against the Lord.
You have refused to obey him and have not followed his instructions,
his decrees and his laws.
Then Jeremiah said to them all, including the women, listen
to this message from the Lord.
All you citizens of Judah who live in Egypt, this is what the Lord of
Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.
You and your wives have said, we will keep our promises to burn incense and pour out
liquid offerings to the queen of heaven.
And you have proven by your actions that you meant it.
So go ahead and carry out your promises and vows to her, but listen
to this message from the Lord.
All you now living in Egypt, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord.
My name will no longer be spoken by any of the judeans in the land of Egypt.
None of you may invoke my name or use this oath As surely as the Sovereign
Lord lives for I will watch over you to bring you disaster and not good.
Everyone from Judah who is now living in Egypt will suffer war and
famine until all of you are dead.
Only a small number will escape death and return to Judah from Egypt.
Then all those who came to Egypt will find out whose words are true mine or theirs.
And this is the proof I give you, says the Lord, that all I have
threatened will happen to you and that I will punish you Here.
This is what the Lord says.
I will turn Pharaoh Hora king of Egypt over to his enemies who want to kill him,
just as I turned kings at CAA of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
The prophet Jeremiah gave a message to Barrick, son of Neriah in the fourth
year of the reign of Je Hoya Kim, son of Josiah, after Barrick had written down
everything Jeremiah had dictated to him.
He said, this is what the Lord the God of Israel says to you, Barrick, you have
said, I am overwhelmed with trouble.
Haven't I had enough pain already?
And now the Lord has added more?
I am worn out from sighing and can find no rest.
Barrick.
This is what the Lord says.
I will destroy this nation that I built.
I will uproot what I planted.
Are you seeking great things for yourself?
Don't do it.
I will bring great disaster upon all these people, but I will give you
your life as a reward wherever you go.
I, the Lord have spoken.
This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience.
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