Jeremiah 43
Jeremiah 43 is the forty-third chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter is part of a narrative section consisting of chapters 37 to 44. Chapters 42-44 describe the emigration to Egypt involving the remnant who remained in Judah after much of the population was exiled to Babylon. In this chapter, Jeremiah performs in Egypt one of the sign-acts distinctive of his prophetic style.
Text
The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 13 verses.Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJerd with extant verses 2‑10, and 2QJer, with extant verses 8‑11.There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.
Parashot
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 43 is a part of the "Sixteenth prophecy " in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life . : open parashah; : closed parashah.Verse numbering
The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text, and Vulgate, in some places differs from that in the Septuagint according to Rahlfs or Lancelot [Charles Lee Brenton|Brenton]. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition.
| Hebrew, Vulgate, English | Rahlfs' LXX |
| 43:1-13 | 50:1-13 |
| 36:1-32 | 43:1-32 |
Verses 5–6
Verse 7
- "Tahpanhes": an important fortress city on the northern border of ancient Egypt in the northeastern Nile delta; generally equated with the Greek city of Daphne; mentioned in Jeremiah 2:16 in conjunction with Memphis.
Verse 8
Verse 13
- "Bethshemesh": Lit. House of the Sun, ancient "On", later called "Heliopolis". The oracle is to describe that Egypt is not a safe refuge from Nebuchadnezzar II who defeated Amasis in 568/567 BCE, and accomplished the prophesied deeds.
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