September 28, 2026, Jeremiah 43:1-13
September 28, 2026, Jeremiah 43:1-13
43 When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these
words of the Lord their
God, with which the Lord their
God had sent him to them, 2 Azariah the son
of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent
men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go
to Egypt to live there,’ 3 but Baruch the son
of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the
Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon.” 4 So Johanan
the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people
did not obey the voice of the Lord,
to remain in the land of Judah. 5 But Johanan the
son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of
Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to
which they had been driven— 6 the men, the women,
the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of
Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah. 7 And
they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived
at Tahpanhes.
8 Then the word of the Lord came
to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes: 9 “Take in your
hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the
entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of
Judah, 10 and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden,
and he will spread his royal canopy over them. 11 He
shall come and strike the land of Egypt, giving over to the
pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are
doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword. 12 I
shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn
them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of
Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from
there in peace. 13 He shall break the obelisks
of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods
of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”
Here is an interesting thought. How far must you flee
before you are beyond God’s reach? Is it even possible? The people in this
passage certainly thought they could out run God. Our God is omniscient. He
knows and sees all.
Debbie Walker
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