Jeremiah 43:7

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Contextual Overview

¹When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God-everything that the LORD had sent him to say- ²then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, 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 reside there.' ³Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans, so that they may put us to death or exile us to Babylon!" ⁴So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces disobeyed the command of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah. ⁵Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered, ⁶the men, the women, the children, the king's daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah. ⁷So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they went as far as Tahpanhes.

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So: 2 Chronicles 25:16

Tahpanhes: Jeremiah 2:16, Tahapanhes, Jeremiah 44:1, Jeremiah 46:14, Isaiah 30:4, Hanes, Ezekiel 30:18, Tehaphnehes

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:68 - bring thee into Egypt Judges 6:10 - ye have 1 Kings 11:19 - Tahpenes Isaiah 27:13 - the outcasts Isaiah 30:2 - walk Jeremiah 41:17 - to go Jeremiah 42:14 - we will go Jeremiah 44:24 - all Judah

Cross-References

Genesis 42:13
But they answered, "Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more."

Genesis 43:3
But Judah replied, "The man solemnly warned us, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'

Genesis 43:27
He asked if they were well, and then he asked, "How is your elderly father that you told me about? Is he still alive?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they came into the land of Egypt,.... They set out from the habitation of Chimham, where they were, Jeremiah 41:17; and proceeded on their journey, till they entered the land of Egypt:

for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord; to continue in Judea, and not to go into Egypt; and though the prophet of the Lord, who was with them, might, as they went along, advise them to go back, they regarded him not, but still went on:

thus came they [even] to Tahpanhes; the same with Hanes, Isaiah 30:4; and might be so called, as here, from a queen of Egypt of this name,

1 Kings 11:19. The Septuagint version, and others after that, call it Taphnas. It is thought to be the Daphnae Pelusiae of Herodotus f It was a seat of the king of Egypt, as appeals from Jeremiah 43:9; and no less a place would these proud men stop at, or take up with, but where the king's palace was. Tyrius g calls it Tapium, and says it was in his time a very small town.

f Enterpe, sive l. 2. c. 30, 107. g Apud Adrichem. Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 125.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tahpanhes - See the Jeremiah 2:16 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 43:7. Came they even to Tahpanhes — This city was called Daphne by the Greeks, and was situated at the extremity of Lower Egypt, near to Heliopolis. It was called Daphne Pelusiaca. They halted at this place, most probably for the purpose of obtaining the king's permission to penetrate farther into Egypt. It was at this place that, according to St. Jerome, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches; for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, gone through many indignities, and suffered every kind of hardship. And now he sealed the truth of his Divine mission with his blood.