1. When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
2. then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. the Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’
3. but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Kasdim, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.”
4. So Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t obey the Lord’s voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.
5. But Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;