Jeremias 43:7

7 Peradventure their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way: for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which he has pronounced against this people.

Jeremias 43:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 43:7

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 1 Kings 11:20 ) . The Septuagint version, and others after that, call it Taphnas. It is thought to be the Daphnae Pelusiae of Herodotus ^F6 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 ^F7 calls it Tapium, and says it was in his time a very small town.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Enterpe, sive l. 2. c. 30, 107.
F7 Apud Adrichem. Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 125.

Jeremias 43:7 In-Context

5 And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying, I am in prison; I cannot enter into the house of the Lord:

6 so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.

7 Peradventure their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way: for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which he has pronounced against this people.

8 And Baruch did according to all that Jeremias commanded him—reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

9 And it came to pass in the eighth year of king Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Juda, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.