Jeremiah 43:10
And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
The word was spoken to the remnant of the Jews left in Judea from the captivity, who inquired of Jeremiah and then went down to Egypt contrary to the direction God gave through him. Baruch was very intimately connected with Jeremiah in the work of God, and the remnant charged that Jeremiah was speaking not the word of God but what Baruch influenced him to speak against them. God punished these wicked men for this great sin with utter destruction, announced by bringing Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to set his throne in Egypt.
The chapter stands within the historical section of the book, covering events around the two years before the fall of Jerusalem. It belongs to the account of Jeremiah's going into Egypt and to the prophecies concerning Egypt and other nations that were to fall before Nebuchadnezzar.
God declared that He would send and bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, called His servant, to Egypt to defeat and conquer it. Those who went to Egypt against God's warning would come under Babylonian rule. Jeremiah thus predicted Egypt's defeat and identified the place in its capital where Nebuchadnezzar would establish his royal presence.
Nebuchadnezzar would be brought to Tahpanhes and would set his throne upon the stones Jeremiah had hidden and spread his royal pavilion over them. This was to be in the brickwork at Pharaoh's house. The brickwork found at the palace's eastern entrance is the place where the king carried out this prophecy, confirming the reliability of God's word.
The stones lay in a paved place, not a brick-kiln. There captives were brought before the king and assigned to kinds of labor suited to them, paralleling David's treatment of captives. The passage in verses 8-13 is one of the prophecies concerning Egypt whose fulfillment is seen in the nation's later conquest and rule by foreign powers.