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Jeremiah, starting at chapter 40
{40:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when
he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of
Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon. {40:2}
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, the LORD your
God pronounced this evil on this place; {40:3} and the LORD has
brought it, and done according as he spoke: because you have sinned
against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing
has come on you. {40:4} Now, behold, I release you this day from the
chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me
into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad
to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is
before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.
{40:5} Now while he had not yet gone back, Go back then, he said, to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of
Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him
among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the
captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.
{40:6} Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and
lived with him among the people who were left in the land. {40:7} Now
when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they
and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and
women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were
not carried away captive to Babylon; {40:8} then they came to Gedaliah
to Mizpah, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Yochanan and Jonathan the
sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of
Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they
and their men. {40:9} Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
swore to them and to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the
Kasdim: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall
be well with you. {40:10} As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah,
to stand before the Kasdim who shall come to us: but you, gather wine
and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in
your cities that you have taken. {40:11} Likewise when all the Jews
who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and
who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left
a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; {40:12} then all the Jews returned out of
all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to
Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
{40:13} Moreover Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, {40:14}
and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of
Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them. {40:15} Then Yochanan
the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please
let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man
shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are
gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
{40:16} But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Yochanan the son of
Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.
{41:1} Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and one of the chief
officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
{41:2} Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who
were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had
made governor over the land. {41:3} Ishmael also killed all the Jews
who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Kasdim who were
found there, the men of war. {41:4} It happened the second day after
he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it, {41:5} that there came men
from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having
their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves,
with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to
the house of the LORD. {41:6} Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth
from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it
happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam. {41:7} It was so, when they came into the midst of the city,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the
midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. {41:8} But ten
men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we
have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil,
and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them among their
brothers. {41:9} Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies
of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was
who which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel),
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
{41:10} Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the
people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the
people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
children of Ammon. {41:11} But when Yochanan the son of Kareah, and
all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the
evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, {41:12} then they
took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. {41:13} Now it
happened that, when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Yochanan
the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with
him, then they were glad. {41:14} So all the people who Ishmael had
carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went
to Yochanan the son of Kareah. {41:15} But Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah escaped from Yochanan with eight men, and went to the
children of Ammon. {41:16} Then took Yochanan the son of Kareah, and
all the captains of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of
the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he
had brought back from Gibeon: {41:17} and they departed, and lived in
Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
{41:18} because of the Kasdim; for they were afraid of them, because
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.
{42:1} Then all the captains of the forces, and Yochanan the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the
least even to the greatest, came near, {42:2} and said to Jeremiah the
prophet, Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray
for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant; for we are
left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us: {42:3} that the LORD
your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing
that we should do. {42:4} Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I
have heard you; behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to
your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing the LORD shall
answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from
you. {42:5} Then they said to Jeremiah, the LORD be a true and
faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word
with which the LORD your God shall send you to us. {42:6} Whether it
be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our
God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey
the voice of the LORD our God. {42:7} It happened after ten days, that
the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah. {42:8} Then called he Yochanan
the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with
him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, {42:9}
and said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you
sent me to present your supplication before him: {42:10} If you will
still live in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down,
and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the
distress that I have brought on you. {42:11} Don't be afraid of the
king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don't be afraid of him, says
the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his
hand. {42:12} I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you,
and cause you to return to your own land. {42:13} But if you say, We
will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of the
LORD your God, {42:14} saying, No; but we will go into the land of
Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the
[1>]shofar[<1], nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
{42:15} now therefore hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah:
Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your
faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there; {42:16} then it shall
happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in
the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall
follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
{42:17} So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into
Egypt to live there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the
evil that I will bring on them. {42:18} For thus says the LORD of
Hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured
forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured
forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an
object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach;
and you shall see this place no more. {42:19} The LORD has spoken
concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you go into Egypt: know
certainly that I have testified to you this day. {42:20} For you have
dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the LORD
your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to
all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do
it: {42:21} and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything for which he has
sent me to you. {42:22} Now therefore know certainly that you shall
die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place
where you desire to go to live there.
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Footnotes:
[1] {42:14} or, trumpet
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