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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.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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