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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.[a]

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 14 and said to him, “Are you at all aware[b] that Baalis, the king of the Ammonites,[c] has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to kill you?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 40:12 Literally “very numerous”
  2. Jeremiah 40:14 Literally “know you know”
  3. Jeremiah 40:14 Literally “sons of Ammon”