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)
BIBLES
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 41
Tanakh 18 verses
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Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and one of the chief officers of the , and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
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Then arose the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the of had made governor over the land.
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also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, even the men of war.
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And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
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- 5 that there came certain men from , from , and from , even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand to bring them to the house of .
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And the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them: ‘Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.’
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- 7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
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But ten men were found among them that said unto : ‘Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.’ So he forbore, and slew them not among their brethren.
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- 9 Now the pit wherein cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain by the side of Gedaliah was that which Asa the had made for of Baasa of ; the same the son of Nethaniah filled with them that were slain.
- 10 Then carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.
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But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that the son of Nethaniah had done,
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then they took all the men, and went to fight with the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
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- 13 Now it came to pass, that when all the people that were with saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.
- 14 So all the people that had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
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But the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
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Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men, even the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the officers, whom he had brought back from Gibeon;
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and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into ,
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- 18 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the of made governor over the land.