6. Now Johanan and all the army officers took all the men, women, and children and led them to Egypt. Among those people were the king’s daughters. (Nebuzaradan had put Gedaliah in charge of those people. Nebuzaradan was the commander of the king of Babylon’s special guards.) Johanan also took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
7. These people didn’t listen to the Lord. So they all went to Egypt to the town of Tahpanhes.
8. In the town of Tahpanhes, Jeremiah received this message from the Lord: