Bible Location
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Tahpanhes was an Egyptian city in the north-eastern delta where Judean refugees settled after the fall of Jerusalem. It is important because Jeremiah's ministry followed the displaced remnant there and because the city became a setting for prophetic warning even in exile. First appears in Jer 43:7.1
AI summary: Tahpanhes is one of the places where the story of Judah continues after the destruction of Jerusalem. Rather than remaining only in the land or going to Babylon, some of the remnant fled to Egypt and gathered in Tahpanhes, carrying their fears and disobedience with them. Jeremiah's sign actions and warnings there show that geographic escape could not remove covenant accountability. The cross references present Tahpanhes as a refugee city where judgment, false security, and prophetic witness continued.1
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.