Then Jeremiah went to (A)Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at (B)Mizpah, and lived with him (C)among the people (D)who were left in the land.

(E)When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that (F)the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of (G)the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon, they went to Gedaliah at (H)Mizpah—(I)Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, (J)Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, (K)Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah(A) and stayed with him among the people who were left behind in the land.

Gedaliah Assassinated(B)

When all the army officers and their men who were still in the open country heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor(C) over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest(D) in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah(E)—Ishmael(F) son of Nethaniah, Johanan(G) and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite,(H) and Jaazaniah[a] the son of the Maakathite,(I) and their men.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 40:8 Hebrew Jezaniah, a variant of Jaazaniah