a Jer 39:9, 11
b Jer 31:15
c Acts 12:6, 7; 21:13; 28:20; Eph 6:20
d Lev 26:14-38; Deut 28:15-68; 29:24-28; 31:17; 32:19-25; Jer 22:8, 9
e Jer 50:7; Dan 9:11; Rom 2:5
f Jer 39:11, 12
k Gen 13:9; 20:15; 47:6
n Jer 39:14
o 2 Kin 25:23
p Jer 52:34
q 2 Kin 8:7-9
r Judg 20:1; 21:1; 1 Sam 7:5; 2 Chr 16:6
s Jer 39:14
t 2 Kin 25:23
w Jer 39:10; 52:16
x Jer 40:14; 41:2
y Jer 40:13, 15; 42:1; 43:2
z 2 Sam 23:28, 29; Ezra 2:22; Neh 7:26
aa Jer 42:1
ab Deut 3:14; Josh 12:5; 2 Sam 10:6, 8
ac 1 Sam 20:16, 17; 2 Kin 25:24
ad Jer 27:11; 38:17-20
ae Deut 1:38; 1 Kin 10:8; Jer 35:19
af Deut 16:13; Jer 39:10
ag Is 16:9; Jer 40:12; 48:32
ah Num 22:1; 25:1, 2; Is 16:4; Jer 9:26
ai 1 Sam 11:1; 12:12
aj Gen 36:8; Is 11:14
ak Jer 43:5
al 1 Sam 11:1-3; 2 Sam 10:1-6; Jer 25:21; 41:10
am 1 Sam 26:8
an 2 Sam 21:17
ao Jer 42:2
ap Matt 10:16; 1 Cor 13:5

Jeremiah 40

Jeremiah Remains in Judah

1The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after aNebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from bRamah, when he had taken him bound in cchains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon. 2Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, “The dLord your God promised this calamity against this place; 3and the Lord has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people esinned against the Lord and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you. 4“But now, behold, I am ffreeing you today from the chains which are on your hands. If ▼
▼ Lit it is good in your eyes
you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will ▼
▼ Lit set my eyes on
look after you; but if ▼
▼ Lit it is evil in your eyes
you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, ▼
▼ Lit refrain!
never mind. Look, the kwhole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go.” 5As ▼
▼ Lit he
Jeremiah was still not going back, ▼
▼ I.e. Nebuzaradan
 he said, “Go on back then to nGedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has oappointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go.” So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a pration and a qgift and let him go. 6Then Jeremiah went to rMizpah to sGedaliah the son of Ahikam and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

7 tNow all the ▼
▼ Or princes
commanders of the forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women and ▼
▼ Lit infants
children, those of the wpoorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon. 8So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with xIshmael the son of Nethaniah, and yJohanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the zNetophathite, and aaJezaniah the son of the abMaacathite, both they and their men. 9Then Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, acswore to them and to their men, saying, ad“Do not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans; stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, that it may go well with you. 10“Now as for me, behold, I am going to stay at Mizpah to aestand for you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, afgather in wine and agsummer fruit and oil and put them in your storage vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken over.” 11Likewise, also all the Jews who were in ahMoab and among the sons of aiAmmon and in ajEdom and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan. 12Then all the Jews akreturned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

13Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah 14and said to him, “Are you well aware that Baalis the king of the sons of alAmmon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them. 15Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, am“Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know! Why should he antake your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered and the aoremnant of Judah would perish?” 16But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, ap“Do not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael.”
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