Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 44:10
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“Then, since they kept on in a state of incurable madness, and were not to be sobered even by the rest being carried away, he first exhorts them to remain there. But when they kept not up to this, but deserted to Egypt, this indeed He allowed them, but requires of them not to desert to irreligion as well as to Egypt. B…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10And though ye should smite the whole host of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left a few wounded men, these should rise up each in his place, and burn this city with fire.
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8and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
9For thus saith the Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.
— Jeremiah 44:10 —
11And it came to pass, when the host of the Chaldeans had gone up from Jerusalem for fear of the host of Pharaoh,
12that Jeremiah went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to buy thence a property in the midst of the people.