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Jeremiah 41 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Gedaliah Is Murdered

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:1 -

Now in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal [fn]family and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men, came to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. While they were eating bread together there in Mizpah,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:2 - Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him rose up, and struck and killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and put to death the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:3 - Ishmael also struck and killed all the Jews who were with him, that is with Gedaliah in Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:4 -

Now it happened on the [fn]next day after the killing of Gedaliah, when no one knew about it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:5 - that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off, their clothes torn, and [fn]their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:6 - Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah left Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went; and as he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - Yet it turned out that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into the cistern.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8 - But ten men who were found among them said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have supplies of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the field.” So he refrained and did not put them to death along with their companions.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 -

Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck and killed [fn]because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had constructed on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10 - Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put in the custody of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and proceeded to cross over to the sons of Ammon.

Johanan Rescues the People

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:11 -

But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him heard about all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:12 - So they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and they found him by the large [fn]pool that is in Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:13 - Now as soon as all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, they were joyful.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:14 - So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:15 - But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the sons of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had [fn]recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck and killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the men who were [fn]soldiers, the women, the [fn]children, and the high officials, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:17 - And they went and stayed in [fn]Geruth Chimham, which is beside Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:18 - because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, since Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck and killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit seed
Or second
Lit having cut themselves
Lit by the hand of
Lit waters
Lit brought back
Lit men of war
Lit infants
Or the lodging place of Chimham
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