Jeremiah:40:1-41
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Jeremiah:40:1 @
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord ,
after Nebuzaradan ,
the captain of the armed men ,
had let him go from Ramah ,
when he had taken him ;
for he had been put in chains ,
among all the prisoners of Jerusalem and Judah who were taken away prisoners to Babylon .
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And the captain of the armed men took Jeremiah and said to him ,
The Lord your God gave word of the evil which was to come on this place :
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and the Lord has made it come ,
and has done as he said ;
because of your sin against the Lord in not giving ear to his voice ;
and that is why this thing has come on you .
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Now see ,
this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands .
If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon ,
then come ,
and I will keep an eye on you ;
but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon ,
then do not come :
see ,
all the land is before you ;
if it seems good and right to you to go on living in the land ,
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Then go back to Gedaliah ,
the son of Ahikam ,
the son of Shaphan ,
whom the king of Babylon has made ruler over the towns of Judah ,
and make your living-place with him among the people ;
or go wherever it seems right to you to go .
So the captain of the armed men gave him food and some money and let him go .
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Jeremiah:40:6 @
So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah ,
the son of Ahikam ,
in Mizpah ,
and was living with him among the people who were still in the land .
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Now when it came to the ears of all the captains of the forces who were in the field ,
and their men ,
that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ,
the son of Ahikam ,
ruler in the land ,
and had put under his care the men and women and children ,
all the poorest of the land ,
those who had not been taken away to Babylon ;
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Then they came to Gedaliah in Mizpah ,
even Ishmael ,
the son of Nethaniah ,
and Johanan ,
the son 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 .
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And Gedaliah ,
the son of Ahikam ,
the son of Shaphan ,
took an oath to them and their men ,
saying ,
Have no fear of the servants of the Chaldaeans :
go on living in the land ,
and become the servants of the king of Babylon ,
and all will be well .
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As for me ,
I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us :
but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels ,
and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken .
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In the same way ,
when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries ,
had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah ,
the son of Ahikam ,
the son of Shaphan ;
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Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight ,
and came to the land of Judah ,
to Gedaliah ,
to Mizpah ,
and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit .
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Now Johanan ,
the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces which were in the field ,
came to Gedaliah in Mizpah ,
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Jeremiah:40:14 @
And said to him ,
Has it come to your knowledge 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 ,
put no faith in what they said .
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Then Johanan ,
the son of Kareah ,
said to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly ,
Let me now go and put Ishmael ,
the son of Nethaniah ,
to death without anyone '
s knowledge :
why let him take your life so that all the Jews who have come together to you may be sent in flight ,
and the rest of the men of Judah come to an end ?
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But Gedaliah ,
the son of Ahikam ,
said to Johanan ,
the son of Kareah ,
You are not to do this :
for what you say about Ishmael is false .
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