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    Jeremiah 40

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    Jeremiah is offered the whole land, pointed towards Gedaliah, and sent away with a ration and a gift—a remarkably well-stocked freedom.

    A freedom with a recommendationvv. 1–6

    Nebuzaradan finds Jeremiah in chains among the captives at Ramah and gives him an imperial explanation of the disaster: the LORD had said it, and the LORD had done it. Then comes a splendidly open offer—Babylon, or anywhere else in the land—followed, just before Jeremiah leaves, by a particular suggestion to return to Gedaliah at Mizpah. Jeremiah goes there, provisioned and released, to stay among those left in the land.

    Mizpah resumes ordinary lifevv. 7–12

    Commanders and soldiers come to Gedaliah at Mizpah, bringing their men with them, and Gedaliah asks them not to fear serving the Chaldeans. His programme for the remnant is almost comically practical in the midst of collapse: stay in the land, gather grapes, summer fruit, and oil, put them in jars, and live in the cities. The Jews scattered through Moab, Ammon, Edom, and other lands hear of this arrangement and return, bringing in an abundance of produce.

    The warning and the private remedyvv. 13–16

    Johanan and the commanders bring Gedaliah a report that Baalis has sent Ishmael to take his life. Gedaliah does not believe it. Johanan then proposes, in private, to kill Ishmael secretly before he can scatter the people gathered at Mizpah. Gedaliah rejects not merely the proposed murder but the warning itself, calling it a lie; the chapter closes with the danger standing precisely where the conversation left it.

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    1. Jer 40:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

    2. Jer 40:2The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,

    3. Jer 40:3and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to you.

    4. Jer 40:4But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”

    5. Jer 40:5But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.

    6. Jer 40:6So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

    7. Jer 40:7When all the commanders and men of the armies in the field 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 who were the poorest of the land and had not been exiled to Babylon,

    8. Jer 40:8they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.

    9. Jer 40:9Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

    10. Jer 40:10As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”

    11. Jer 40:11When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,

    12. Jer 40:12they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.

    13. Jer 40:13Meanwhile, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

    14. Jer 40:14and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

    15. Jer 40:15Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

    16. Jer 40:16But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Do not do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is a lie.”

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    • 14Jeremiah 41:10Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
    • 8Jeremiah 42:1Then all the commanders of the forces, along with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached
    • 2Deuteronomy 29:24–28So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
    • 3Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
    • 4Jeremiah 39:11–12Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, saying,
    • 5Jeremiah 39:14had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.
    • 7Jeremiah 39:10But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
    • 10Jeremiah 40:12they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
    • 1Joshua 18:25Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
    • 1Acts 12:6–7On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
    • 1Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.
    • 1Jeremiah 31:15This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
    • 1Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
    • 2Jeremiah 22:8–9And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
    • 4Genesis 20:15And Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please.”
    • 6Judges 20:1Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

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