These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 40
Tanakh 16 verses
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The which came to from , after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of and , that were carried away captive unto .
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And the captain of the guard took , and said unto him: ‘The thy pronounced this evil upon this place;
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and hath brought it, and done according as He spoke; because ye have sinned against , and have not hearkened to His voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
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And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which are upon thy hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into , come, and I will look well unto thee; but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into , forbear; behold, all the land is before thee; whither it seemeth good and right unto thee to go, thither go.—
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Yet he would not go back.—Go back then to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the of hath made governor over the cities of , and dwell with him among the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right unto thee to go.’ So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance and a present, and let him go.
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Then went unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
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Now when all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the of had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to ;
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then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
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Jeremiah 42:1 Deuteronomy 3:14 2 Samuel 10:8 Jeremiah 42:8 Ezra 2:22 Jeremiah 43:2 Nehemiah 7:26 2 Samuel 23:28-29 2 Samuel 10:6 Joshua 12:5 Jeremiah 40:6 Jeremiah 43:5 2 Samuel 23:34 2 Kings 25:23 Jeremiah 37:20 Jeremiah 40:11 Ezra 2:2 1 Chronicles 2:54 1 Chronicles 11:30 Jeremiah 38:26 1 Chronicles 2:48 2 Kings 25:25 Jeremiah 37:15 -
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And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying: ‘Fear not to the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and the of , and it shall be well with you.
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- 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that may come unto us; but ye, gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.’
- 11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in , and among the children of Ammon, and in , and that were in all the countries, heard that the of had left a remnant of , and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
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then all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of , to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.
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Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
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- 14 and said unto him: ‘Dost thou that Baalis the of the children of Ammon hath sent the son of Nethaniah to take thy life?’ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
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Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying: ‘Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall it; wherefore should he take thy life, that all the Jews that are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant of perish?’
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But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah: ‘Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of .’
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