Jeremiah 44:1 (KJV)

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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt which dwell at Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros saying

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concerning. Jer 42:15-18 Jer 43:5-7

Migdol. Jer 46:14 Ex 14:2 Eze 29:10

Tahpanhes.{Tahpanhes,} rendered [Taphne] and [Taphnai] by the LXX., is no doubt the [Daphnai] of Herodotus, a royal city of Lower Egypt, situated, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, sixteen miles south from Pelusium, from which it was called Daphnæ Pelusicæ. Forster says that there is now a place situated in the vicinity of Pelusium called Safnas, which may be a vestige of the ancient name. It appears to have been the very first town in Egypt, in the road from Palestine, that afforded tolerable accommodation for the fugitives. It was at this place that, according to Jerome and several of the ancients, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and suffered every kind of indignity and hardship. Jer 43:7 Eze 30:18

Tehaphnehes. Noph. Jer 2:16 Jer 46:14 Jer 46:19 Isa 19:13 Eze 30:16

Pathros. Ge 10:14

Pathrusim. Isa 11:11 Eze 29:14 Eze 30:14

29 and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt. Cir. A.M. 3433. B.C. 571. The word.Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem.

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