4. So Johanan, the army officers and all the people disobeyed the Lord’s command. He had commanded them to stay in Judah.
5. But Johanan son of Kareah and the army officers took those who were left alive from Judah to Egypt. These were the people who had run away from the Babylonians to other countries. But they had come back to Judah.
6. Now Johanan and the army officers took the men, women and children. Among those people were the king’s daughters. And they led them to Egypt. Nebuzaradan commander of the guard had put Gedaliah in charge of those people. (Gedaliah was the son of Ahikam son of Shaphan.) Johanan also took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
7. These people did not listen to the Lord. So they all went to Egypt to the town of Tahpanhes.
8. In Tahpanhes the Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah: