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11 And also all the Judeans who were in Moab, and among the Ammonites,[a] and in Edom, and who were in all the lands, when they heard that the king of Babylon had given a remnant to Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, in an official position over them, 12 then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they were scattered. And they came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit that yielded in great abundance.[b]

13 And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 40:11 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  2. Jeremiah 40:12 Literally “very numerous”