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In our Chapter, we find that both Jeremiah and his faithful secretary, Baruch, have been taken to Egypt, apparently against their will, by Johanan ben Kareah and his troops, along with \u201call the remnant of Judah\u201d (43:4-6). Jeremiah now continues to prophecy from a place in Egypt identified as Tahpanhes (verse 7 and following). Here, Jeremiah is told by God: \u201cGet yourself large stones and embed them in mortar in the brick structure at the entrance to Pharaoh\u2019s palace in Tahpanhes\u201d. Then Jeremiah prophecies that God is sending His servant Nebuchadrezzar, King of Babylon. God will \u201cset his throne on these stones\u201d and the Babylonian king will destructively rule over Egypt (verses 9-13).<\/span><\/p>\n

What more do we know about the site of Jeremiah\u2019s building this platform for the coming Babylonian rule over Egypt?<\/span><\/p>\n

This Egyptian location is first mentioned in Jeremiah 2:16 along with Nof (ancient Memphis), where these two cities seem to be a metonymy for all of Egypt (see also Jeremiah 44:1, 46:14). Significantly, the Prophet Ezekiel prophecies that the Lord God proclaims: \u201cIn Tehaphnehes daylight shall be withheld, when I break there the power of Egypt, and there her proud strength comes to an end. [The city] itself shall be covered with cloud, and its daughter towns shall go into captivity\u201d (Ezekiel 30:18).<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1886, the British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, described a site known to the Egyptian natives as Qasr Bint al-Yahudi, (i.e. the “Castle of the Jew’s Daughter”). Here he identified a platform of brickwork, which he tentatively identified as the pavement at the entry of Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes, constructed by Jeremiah. This was where the ceremony described in Jeremiah Chapter 43 took place \u201cbefore the chiefs of the fugitives assembled on the platform, and here Nebuchadnezzar II spread his royal pavilion”. Petrie described his discovery in detail: \u201cThe entrance was in the side of a block of buildings projecting from the fort; and in front of it, on the opposite side of the roadway, similarly projecting from the fort, was a large platform of brickwork suitable for out-door business, … just what is now called a \u201cmastaba\u201d … Jeremiah 43:9 is the exact description of the \u201cmastaba\u201d, which I found”. A \u201cmastaba\u201d is a mudbrick superstructure above tombs in ancient Egypt from which the pyramid developed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tahpanhes may be the Hebrew transliteration of \u201cT\u1e25pn\u1e25s\u201d, a place mentioned in a Phoenician papyrus letter of the 6<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE from Egypt. This text refers to \u201cBaal-Zephon and the gods of Tahpanhes\u201d. In 2003, the British Egyptologist David Michael Rohl proposed to identify Tahpanhes with the biblical location of Baal-Zephon, mentioned in the narrative of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exodus 14:2-4, Numbers 33:7).<\/span><\/p>\n

Ancient Tahpanhes is identified today with Egyptian Tell Defenneh, located on the shore of Lake Manzala on the Tanitic branch of the Nile. It is now situated on the Suez Canal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: The platform of brickwork, entry of Pharaoh’s palace, Tahpanhes, William Flinders Petrie, alchetron<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":72247,"id":72247,"title":"jer43-tahpanhes","filename":"jer43-tahpanhes.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-tahpanhes.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/tahpanhes\/jer43-tahpanhes\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer43-tahpanhes","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72246,"date":"2020-03-23 21:11:35","modified":"2020-03-23 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