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Chapter 43 is a brief chapter about the actual emigration to Egypt. The Jews decide to settle in Tachpanches. Tachpanches is a city on the Nile delta in an area that now is next to the Suez Canal. God instructs Jeremiah to place stones in the mortar that surrounds the palace of Pharaoh. The implication is that Tachpanches housed one of Pharaoh's travel palaces.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The site was excavated by Sir Flinders Petrie, a British Egyptologist, in the 1900s. He discovered a wide paved area in front of the palace. As such he surmises that Jeremiah did not put stones in the mortar in the wall, but in the mortar of this paved area in front of the palace. This interpretation makes sense given that the message from God is that Egypt will not be a refuge for the fleeing Israelites. Nebuchadnezzar will conquer the area, just like Jerusalem and \u201cset his throne on these stones\u201d (verse 10). 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It\u2019s hard to read Jeremiah these days. Every word, every verse, doesn\u2019t just seem like an ancient prophecy of faraway, long gone times, but a gloomy vision into a future; a future when people will bear the ramifications of not listening to God and doing whatever they feel like for their own pleasures and desires; a future we have, maybe, lived, until a few days ago.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are tragic chapters, as we watch the remnants of the Jewish population in Judah, being scattered and decimated. When Jeremiah, the prophet, finishes his warning at the beginning of this chapter, telling the people that they should not go down to Egypt as they wished, the people, led by Yochanan ben Kareah yell at him: \u201cLiar! God did not send you; you are part of a conspiracy against us!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At this point, they have been through too much and can\u2019t bear another piece of bad news. Life is extremely confusing: Gedaliah who was a Jewish leader, instated by the Babylonians, is dead; his murderer, an heir to the House of David, is trying to take over and restore the kingship violently; the land is desolate after siege, intrigues, destruction. It\u2019s hard to know where to go and what to do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah seeks God\u2019s instructions. They all wait for 10 days for a reply; a favorable reply that will allow them to do what they want. Ten. Whole. Days. In \u201cspiritual quarantine\u201d, unable to move, perhaps food supplies diminishing, fights increasing... Their reaction demonstrates that they were hoping for, perhaps even counting on, a certain response: God will surely see their dire situation and allow them reprieve in Egypt. When they get a message they don\u2019t want to hear, they quickly and adamantly accuse the messenger, then rush to do the opposite, which leads to further disaster.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fascinating studies with Vietnam POW\u2019s, quoted in Jim Collin\u2019s book \u201cGood to Great\u201d, show that those who dreamed of \u2018I\u2019ll be home for Christmas, New-Years\u2019 etc. fared much worse in captivity than those with realistic expectations, focused on the here and now. Optimism? Yes; hope? Yes, of course, and faith, indeed. But, at the very same time, an awareness that just because we asked, even very nicely, or prayed, or any number of methods we use to try to manipulate a situation, it doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ll get the answer we want. But then, we\u2019re met with helplessness, which drives us crazy; waiting is often so hard, especially considering the combination of unknown and danger we face. We start telling ourselves things like, \u2018by Pesach, it will be ok; by May\u2026 by summer\u2019\u2026 When, in reality, we don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maybe today\u2019s chapter is about not leaving Israel for Egypt, or about listening to the prophet, but for me, right now, it is about the need to develop an ability, even if at times, excruciating, to stay put and wait it out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":72253,"alt":"","title":"jer43-post apocalyptic","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","width":960,"height":848,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-300x265.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":265,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-768x678.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":678,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":848,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":848,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":848,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":848,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-475x420.jpg","home_baner-width":475,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Stay Put And Wait It Out","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Reading Jeremiah in these times...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":72253,"alt":"","title":"jer43-post apocalyptic","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","width":960,"height":848,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-300x265.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":265,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-768x678.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":678,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":848,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":848,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":848,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":848,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-post-apocalyptic-475x420.jpg","home_baner-width":475,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"43","chapter_main_number":"443","date":"20270511","wall_id":"443"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":4,"id":"72246","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Tahpanhes ","post_title":"Tahpanhes","slug":"tahpanhes","old_id":"72246","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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He has now returned to Jerusalem where he is continuing his research and teaching activities.","credit":"","image_url":"","short_description":"Marc Bregman is the Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies emeritus, at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":33878,"alt":"Marc Bregman","title":"Marc Bregman","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","width":361,"height":488,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-222x300.jpg","medium-width":222,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","medium_large-width":361,"medium_large-height":488,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","large-width":361,"large-height":488,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","1536x1536-width":361,"1536x1536-height":488,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","2048x2048-width":361,"2048x2048-height":488,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","post_full_size-width":361,"post_full_size-height":488,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-311x420.jpg","home_baner-width":311,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"443","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Jeremiah builds the platform for the throne of the king of Babylon\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

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>\r\n

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

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God\u2019s advice to remain in place, as delivered by Jeremiah in the previous chapter, was rejected by the inciters of the mob. They could not accuse him of outright falsification because they had acknowledged his veracity by summoning him. Instead, they accused him of \u201cspinning\u201d his message to concur with the political views of Baruch ben Neriah. They then forced all the remnant\u2014including Jeremiah\u2014to accompany them, as they made their way to Tahpanhes, which Shadal* identified as Tophna Pelusiaca, on Egypt\u2019s easternmost border.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There, God gave Jeremiah the following instructions: <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Get yourself large stones and embed them in mortar (<\/span>melet<\/span><\/i>) in the brick structure (<\/span>malben<\/span><\/i>) at the entrance to Pharaoh\u2019s palace in Tahpanhes, with some Judeans looking on\u201d (9). The precise meanings of the words <\/span>melet<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> are the subject of some exegetical disagreement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi saw the root of the word <\/span>melet<\/span><\/i> as L-U-T and the <\/span>mem<\/span><\/i> as a prefix and translated it with the Old French <\/span>envelopement<\/span><\/i> (\u05d0\u05e0\u05d5\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05e4\u05de\u05e0\u05d8), i.e., \u201cwrap it in the clay of the bricks.\u201d His student Yosef Kara used the same Old French and translated <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> as <\/span>mortar<\/span><\/i>. Radak said that \u201cL-U-T is the material from which bricks are made, or some other substance such as plaster or sand, and <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> is where the bricks are fired or manufactured.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal questioned whether a furnace for firing bricks would be situated alongside a royal palace, and offered, instead, an interpretation he credited to his student, Yitzhak Pardo.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> is a stockpile of bricks and of other things that are required for construction. Such a stockpile was situated next to Pharaoh\u2019s palace, or it was placed there [temporarily] to strengthen the wall and the palace out of fear of the Babylonians. That stockpile also contained a lot of mortar for all the construction and that is where Jeremiah deposited the stones.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":72250,"alt":"","title":"jer43-bricks","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks.png","width":1227,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-288x300.png","medium-width":288,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-768x801.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":801,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-982x1024.png","large-width":982,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks.png","1536x1536-width":1227,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks.png","2048x2048-width":1227,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-1150x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1150,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-403x420.png","home_baner-width":403,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Bricks and Mortar","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Jeremiah gets a concrete mission to perform","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":72250,"alt":"","title":"jer43-bricks","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks.png","width":1227,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-288x300.png","medium-width":288,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-768x801.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":801,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-982x1024.png","large-width":982,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks.png","1536x1536-width":1227,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks.png","2048x2048-width":1227,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-1150x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1150,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks-403x420.png","home_baner-width":403,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"43","chapter_main_number":"443","date":"20270511","wall_id":"443"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"118443","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"The Tanakh Podcast-Jeremiah43","post_title":"The Tanakh Podcast-Jeremiah43","slug":"the-tanakh-podcast-jeremiah43","old_id":"118443","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33692,"post_title":"Alex Israel","slug":"33692-2","old_id":"33692","first_name":"Alex","last_name":"Israel","description":"Alex Israel teaches Tanakh at the Pardes Institute, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and Matan, Jerusalem. 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43:12 \u201cAnd he shall set fire to the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and take them captive and wrap round the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he shall go out from there in safety.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Masoretic Text has \u201cI will set fire,\u201d but the Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Vulgate all show the third-person singular, making Nebuchadrezzar the subject of the verb. It is, of course, possible that the original text simply switched from God\u2019s human agent to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeremiah speaks unambiguously and confidently, echoing his very first prophecy, when God charged him with his life's mission: \u201cI appoint you this day over nations and kingdoms: to uproot and tear down, to obliterate and destroy; to build and plant\u201d (1:10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah has already witnessed the fulfillment of most of this prophecy. He has seen uprooting and tearing down, obliteration and destruction. But suddenly, he is filled with hope that the final part will now be fulfilled as well: \"If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you; for I have relented from the disaster I have inflicted on you.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Jeremiah hears the people saying, \"We cannot stay here.\" They have no real intention of heeding the word of God. Their oath of ten days earlier was meaningless. Egypt sits on the Nile in peace and prosperity and beckons them. Upon this they pin their hopes and dreams. They perceive themselves not as refugees fleeing for their lives, but as immigrants. Jeremiah's prayer on their behalf was thus based on a fundamental error. He flies into a rage against them and holds nothing back. He vents his frustration, his disappointment, his sense of betrayal at their request for the word of God, and his willingness to believe that, finally, the people wanted to connect with the word of God. So begins one of Jeremiah's longest speeches, from verses 15 to 22. Everything finally bursts out \u2014 bitterness, humiliation, anger, and despair. The leaders of the flock behave wisely. They do not interrupt the prophet as he pours out his heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only afterward do they respond to Jeremiah's boiling rage with chilling coolness: \"You lie; the Lord, our God, has not sent you.\" The word \"lie,\" <\/span>sheker<\/span><\/i>, hits Jeremiah like a knockout punch. No prophet uses this term more. Of the 109 times it appears in Scripture, thirty-five occur in the Book of Jeremiah. And this is the only time it is directed against him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the people are taken aback by the prophet's transformation from a broken and listless shell of a man to a newly inspired and energetic spirit. Perhaps they assume that this about-face has been engineered by his young accomplice, who, after all, hails from a family of scribes well-known for their opposition to activism and preference for passivity. The decision to continue on to Egypt has been made. Jeremiah finds himself part of the convoy heading south.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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  1. The narrator, speaking for Jeremiah<\/em>. What did Jeremiah think and feel, in response to the remnant\u2019s rejection of his prophecy? Jeremiah does not express himself on that issue. But the narrator calls the people who refused to listen \u201carrogant\u201d (or wicked - v. 2), and emphasizes that they did not hearken to \u201cGod\u2019s word\u201d (vv. 4,7), thus negating their claim that Jeremiah does not truly represent the voice of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Surprising accusation<\/em>. In verse 3 the leaders of the remnant accuse Jeremiah \u201cIt is Baruch son of Neriah who is inciting you against us, so that we will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans to be killed or to be exiled to Babylon!\u201d This is the only time in the book of Jeremiah that Baruch is presented as having his own opinions and influence, and not just as Jeremiah\u2019s assistant.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Nebuchadnezzar in Egypt<\/em>. When was Nebuchadnezzar in Egypt? From a partially preserved Babylonian chronicle we know that in the year 567 BCE Nebuchadnezzar went to war with Egypt, but the results aren\u2019t known. Regarding results, note that the prophecy speaks of Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s eventual safe return to his land (v. 12), and not conquest and rule.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A shepherd\u2019s cloak<\/em>. The image in verse 12 describes the Babylonian army covering all Egypt \u201cas a shepherd wraps himself up in his garment\u201d - that is, completely.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Beit Shemesh in Egypt<\/em>? We\u2019re used to thinking of Beit Shemesh as somewhere on the way from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. But that\u2019s the Hebrew translation of the name \u201cPar-ra\u201d for the Egyptian city On. This city was a focal point for sun worshiping, and there were many obelisks there that were part of that cult. 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