Jer 40:7 | HCSB | STEP | When all the commanders of the armies in the field – they and their men – heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men , women , and children from the poorest of the land who had not been deported to Babylon ,

Jeremiah 40:7

Gedaliah Advises Peace

7 When all the commanders of the armies in the field – they and their men – heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children from the poorest of the land who had not been deported to Babylon,