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62 PHARAOHS, FELLAHS, AND EXPLORERS.
conveyed them for safety to Egypt. Their flight may be
described as a later Exodus—an Exodus from Syria to Egypt,
instead of from Egypt to Syria; for with them went " all
the remnant of Judah, and all the captains of the forces ;"
a mixed multitude, in fact, consisting mainly of old men,
women, and children, and such of the citizens as the sword
and chains of the conqueror had spared. Convinced of the
impolicy of rousing the wrath of Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah
vehemently opposed the project of Johanan, and prophesied
against it, saying:
" And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye rem-
nant of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Is-
rael ; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and
go to sojourn there;
" Then shall it come to pass, that the sword, which ye
feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and
the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after
you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
" So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go
into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them
shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon
them."*
Johanan refused, however, to listen to Jeremiah, who,
sorely against his will, threw in his lot with that of his
brethren, and went across the frontier. Meanwhile Apries,
with royal hospitality, placed his palace of Daphnae at the
disposal of the fugitive princesses, and granted a large tract
of land to their followers. But Jeremiah continued to pro-
phesy the pursuit of the Babylonian host, and lifted up his
warning voice upon the very threshold of the palace of
Pharaoh. The whole scene is thus related in the forty-third
chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, the seventh, eighth, ninth,
tenth, and eleventh verses:
" So they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed
* Jeremiah, chap, xlii., verses 15 and 1(5.
conveyed them for safety to Egypt. Their flight may be
described as a later Exodus—an Exodus from Syria to Egypt,
instead of from Egypt to Syria; for with them went " all
the remnant of Judah, and all the captains of the forces ;"
a mixed multitude, in fact, consisting mainly of old men,
women, and children, and such of the citizens as the sword
and chains of the conqueror had spared. Convinced of the
impolicy of rousing the wrath of Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah
vehemently opposed the project of Johanan, and prophesied
against it, saying:
" And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye rem-
nant of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Is-
rael ; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and
go to sojourn there;
" Then shall it come to pass, that the sword, which ye
feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and
the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after
you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
" So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go
into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them
shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon
them."*
Johanan refused, however, to listen to Jeremiah, who,
sorely against his will, threw in his lot with that of his
brethren, and went across the frontier. Meanwhile Apries,
with royal hospitality, placed his palace of Daphnae at the
disposal of the fugitive princesses, and granted a large tract
of land to their followers. But Jeremiah continued to pro-
phesy the pursuit of the Babylonian host, and lifted up his
warning voice upon the very threshold of the palace of
Pharaoh. The whole scene is thus related in the forty-third
chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, the seventh, eighth, ninth,
tenth, and eleventh verses:
" So they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed
* Jeremiah, chap, xlii., verses 15 and 1(5.