Jeremiah Chapter 40

• Jeremiah 40:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 40:2
  The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound...
• Jeremiah 40:3
  The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God pronounced this evil on this place;
• Jeremiah 40:4
  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 t...
• Jeremiah 40:5
  Now, behold, I release you today 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 c...
• Jeremiah 40:6
  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 gov...
• Jeremiah 40:7
  Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
• Jeremiah 40:8
  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 A...
• Jeremiah 40:9
  then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathi...
• Jeremiah 40:10
  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and ...
• Jeremiah 40:11
  As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put ...
• Jeremiah 40:12
  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 B...
• Jeremiah 40:13
  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 very much win...
• Jeremiah 40:14
  Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
• Jeremiah 40:15
  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...
• Jeremiah 40:16
  Then Johanan 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 m...
• Jeremiah 40:17
  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for you speak falsely of Ishmael.”