an took those whom he had rescued out of the hands
of Ishmael, and the eunuchs, and their wives and children, and came to a
certain place called Mandra, and there they abode that day, for they had
determined to remove from thence and go into Egypt, out of fear, lest
the Babylonians should slay them, in case they continued in the country,
and that out of anger at the slaughter of Gedaliah, who had been by them
set over it for governor.

6. Now while they were under this deliberation, Johanan, the son of
Kareah, and the rulers that were with him, came to Jeremiah the prophet,
and desired that he would pray to God, that because they were at an
utter loss about what they ought to do, he would discover it to them,
and they sware that they would do whatsoever Jeremiah should say to
them. And when the prophet said he would be their intercessor with God,
it came to pass, that after ten days God appeared to him, and said that
he should inform Johanan, and the other rulers, and all the people, that
he would be with them while they continued in that country, and take
care of them, and keep them from being hurt by the Babylonians, of whom
they were afraid; but that he would desert them if they went into Egypt,
and, out of this wrath against them, would inflict the same punishments
upon them which they knew their brethren had already endured. So when
the prophet had informed Johanan and the people that God had foretold
these things, he was not believed, when he said that God commanded them
to continue in the country; but they imagined that he said so to gratify
Baruch, his own disciple, and belied God, and that he persuaded them
to stay there, that they might be destroyed by the Babylonians.
Accordingly, both the people and Johanan disobeyed the counsel of God,
which he gave them by the prophet, and removed into Egypt, and carried
Jeremiah and Barnch along with him.

7. And when they were there, God signified to the prophet that the king
of Babylon was about making an expedition against the Egyptians, and
commanded him to foretell to the people that Egypt should be taken, and
the king of Babylon should slay some of them and, should take
others captive, and bring them to Babylon; which things came to pass
accordingly; for on the fifth year after the destruction of Jerusalem,
which was the twenty-third of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, he made an
expedition against Celesyria; and when he had possessed himself of it,
he made war against