The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[9] Jeremiah 44 is a part of the "Sixteenth prophecy (Jeremiah 40-45)" in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life (Jeremiah 26-45). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.
The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to RahlfsorBrenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.[10]
The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS).[10]
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, (KJV)[11]
This is Jeremiah's final message to the Judeans living in various places in Egypt,[12] and therefore the Jerusalem Bible suggests that this introduction to Jeremiah's final prophecy "represents [a] discourse as addressed to the whole Jewish diaspora in Egypt".[13]
"Tahpanhes": was the border point first reach by the migrant community coming from occupied Judah (Jeremiah 43:7).[13]
"Thus says the Lord: '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, his enemy who sought his life.'" (KJV)[14]
The same way Yahweh handed Zedekiah over to Nebuchadnezzar II (Jeremiah 39:5–7), PharaohHophra (or Apries) (Hebrew: חפרעḤāp̄əra‘) would be handed over to his enemies.[15] Hophra is the fourth king (counting from Psamtik I) of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt, ruling 589-570 BCE.[16] His name is written as Ουαφρη[ς], Ouaphre[s] in the Greek Old Testament,[17]Ancient Greek: ἉπρίηςApriesbyHerodotus (ii. 161) and Diodorus (i. 68), or WaphresbyManetho, who correctly records that he reigned for 19 years.[18] He forged an alliance with Zedekiah to rebel against Babylon (Jeremiah 37:5), sending an army in the summer of 588 BC, but that action failed to prevent the fall of Jerusalem in July 587 BCE.[19] In 570 BC Hophra was forced to rule together as co-regents with Amasis (or Ahmosis/Ahmose II), but three years later Hophra was overthrown and executed, while Amasis continued to be a sole ruler until his death in 526 BCE.[15]
^Cf. Christoffer Theis, Sollte Re sich schämen? Eine subliminale Bedeutung von עפרח in Jeremia 44,30, in: UF 42 (2011), S. 677–691 for the writing of this particular name.
O'Connor, Kathleen M. (2007). "23. Jeremiah". In Barton, John; Muddiman, John (eds.). The Oxford Bible Commentary (first (paperback) ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 487–533. ISBN978-0199277186. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
