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1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the great, came near,
2 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beg you, our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us to Jehovah your God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us:)
3 That Jehovah your God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; I will pray to Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatever thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah is a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not do even according to all things for the which Jehovah your God shall send you to us.
6 Whether it is good, or whether it is evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God.
7 After ten days, the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah.
8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the great,
9 And said to them, Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him;
10 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I am sorry for the evil that I have done to you.
11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; Do not be afraid of him, says Jehovah: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
12 And I will show mercies to you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of Jehovah your God,
14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
15 And now therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you remnant of Judah; Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; If you wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to dwell there;
16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which you feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof you were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
17 So it shall be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to dwell there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
18 For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so my fury shall be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
19 Jehovah has said concerning you, Oh you remnant of Judah; Go you not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
20 For you dissembled in your hearts, when you sent me to Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us to Jehovah our God; and according to all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.
21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God, nor any thing for the which he has sent me to you.
22 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go and to dwell.