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But ten of them said to Ishmael, "Don't kill us! We have wheat and barley, olive oil and honey, hidden in a field." So he let them alone and did not kill them with the others.

Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the Lord our God."

So he called together Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him and all the people from the least to the greatest.

I will show you compassion so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your land.'

"However, if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,' and so disobey the Lord your God,

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.'

So now, be sure of this: You will die by the sword, famine and plague in the place where you want to go to settle."

But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon."

So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people disobeyed the Lord 's command to stay in the land of Judah.

So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes.

He will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt; he will burn their temples and take their gods captive. As a shepherd picks his garment clean of lice, so he will pick Egypt clean and depart.

"Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?

"‘This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this place,' declares the Lord , ‘so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.'

"Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged.

"So my heart laments for Moab like the music of a pipe; it laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hareseth. The wealth they acquired is gone.

Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?'

But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, so that he cannot conceal himself. His armed men are destroyed, also his allies and neighbors, so there is no one to say,

As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, along with their neighboring towns," says the Lord , "so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.

So Babylonia will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill," declares the Lord .

Yet their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name. He will vigorously defend their cause so that he may bring rest to their land, but unrest to those who live in Babylon.