Jeremiah 43:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Tahpanhes. An Egyptian fortress on the eastern or Syrian frontier of Lower Egypt (Compare Jeremiah 2:16), where the Pharaoh had his palace. See Jeremiah 43:9. Now Tell Defenneh; where Petrie discovered (in 1886). ruin called Kasr el Bint Yehudi = the palace of the daughter of Judah, assigned doubtless to the daughters of king Zedekiah. See Jeremiah 43:6, above; and Jeremiah 41:10. See App-87.

Jeremiah 43:7

7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.