Jeremiah 24:8

The bad figs corresponded to King Zedekiah, his administrators, the people who remained in Jerusalem and Judah, and the Judahites who had already fled to Egypt for safety.

"We are not told when people fled to Egypt, but those of pro-Egyptian sympathies may have settled there when Jehoahaz was taken there in 609 B.C. (2 Kings 23:34) or when Jehoiakim became Nebuchadrezzar’s vassal (cf. 603 B.C.) or even when Nebuchadrezzar invaded Judah in 598/7 B.C." [Note: Thompson, pp. 508-9.]