[[Jer-44]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Jer-43]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Jer-45]] --- ### You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them... Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The current state of Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as desolate ruins is the fulfillment of God's prior warnings delivered through Jeremiah regarding the Babylonian conquest. *Historical context*: Historians and archaeologists confirm that the Siege of Jerusalem (589–587 BC) by Nebuchadnezzar II resulted in the total destruction of the First Temple and the city's infrastructure, leaving the region of Judah largely depopulated. *Related to*: [[Jer-01#v14|Jeremiah 1:14]]-16, [[Jer-25#v9|Jeremiah 25:9]]-11 ### Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Jeremiah predicts that the Jews who fled to Egypt against God's command will face destruction by sword and famine during upcoming conflicts. *Historical context*: Cuneiform records (the Babylonian Chronicles) indicate that Nebuchadnezzar II invaded Egypt in 568/567 BC. During this campaign, many of the border settlements where the Jewish refugees resided, such as Tahpanhes and Migdol, were devastated, leading to the death or capture of the Judean remnant there. *Related to*: ### Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Jeremiah provides a specific sign: Pharaoh Hophra will be handed over to his enemies and killed, just as King Zedekiah was captured by Nebuchadnezzar. *Historical context*: Pharaoh Hophra (Apries) was defeated by his general Amasis II (Ahmose II) during a civil war in 570 BC. According to the Greek historian Herodotus and Egyptian records, Hophra was eventually handed over to the people and strangled to death around 567 BC, precisely as predicted. *Related to*: ### Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: While the majority of the group in Egypt will perish, a tiny fraction will survive the Babylonian invasion and return to the land of Judah. *Historical context*: The fulfillment of this survival is noted in the continued existence of a small Jewish diaspora and the survival of the prophetic word itself, which returned to Judah via those few survivors, whereas the large-scale Jewish settlements in Lower Egypt described in [[Jer|Jeremiah 44]] ceased to exist as a distinct group after the Babylonian and subsequent Persian campaigns. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy