Jeremiah 44:1

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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

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The Assyrian and Babylonian ExileThe kingdoms of Judah and Israel with the routes of the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities.

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Jeremiah addresses Judean refugees in Egypt after Jerusalem’s fall to Babylon. Memphis, Tahpanhes, and Pathros were Egyptian centers where they had settled; Babylon was the conquering empire, while Jerusalem remained the devastated covenant city from which they had fled.

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Jeremiah 44:1 mentions Babylon, Egypt, Jerusalem, Memphis, Pathros and Tahpanhes.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Egypt · Ricardo Liberato
Jerusalem · Godot13
Memphis · Neithsabes

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