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Jeremiah 41:11But in the seventh month Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and had been one of Zedekiah’s chief officers, came with ten of his men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating a meal together with him there at Mizpah,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 40:8Jer 40:6Ps 41:92 Chr 22:102 Kgs 11:12 Kgs 25:252 Sam 20:9-102 Sam 3:27Dan 11:26-27Ezek 17:13
Jeremiah 41:22Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him stood up, pulled out their swords, and killed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. Thus Ishmael killed the man that the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:25Jer 40:52 Sam 20:9-102 Sam 3:27Jer 40:7Ps 109:5Ps 41:9
Jeremiah 41:33Ishmael also killed all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah and the Babylonian soldiers who happened to be there.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:25Eccl 9:18Jer 41:11-12Lam 1:2
Jeremiah 41:44On the day after Gedaliah had been murdered, before anyone even knew about it,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 27:11Ps 52:1-2
Jeremiah 41:55eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves to show they were mourning. They were carrying grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 16:242 Kgs 25:9Deut 14:1Josh 18:11 Kgs 12:1Gen 33:18Judg 9:11 Kgs 12:251 Kgs 16:291 Sam 1:7
Jeremiah 41:66Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them. He was pretending to cry as he walked along. When he met them, he said to them, “Come with me to meet Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 3:16Jer 50:42 Sam 1:2-16Prov 26:23-26
Jeremiah 41:77But as soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw their bodies in a cistern.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 22:27Isa 59:7Ps 55:231 Kgs 15:28-291 Kgs 16:10-122 Kgs 11:1-22 Kgs 15:25Ezek 33:24-26Prov 1:16Rom 3:15
Jeremiah 41:88But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us. For we will give you the stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey we have hidden in a field.” So he spared their lives and did not kill them along with the rest.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 2:4Prov 13:8Isa 45:3Mark 8:36-37Matt 16:26Matt 6:25Phil 3:7-9Ps 49:6-8
Jeremiah 41:99Now the cistern where Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of those he had killed was a large one that King Asa had constructed as part of his defenses against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with dead bodies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:17-221 Sam 13:62 Chr 16:1-102 Sam 17:9Judg 6:21 Sam 14:111 Sam 14:221 Sam 24:3Heb 11:38Josh 10:16-18
Jeremiah 41:1010Then Ishmael took captive all the people who were still left alive in Mizpah. This included the royal princesses and all the rest of the people in Mizpah that Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, had put under the authority of Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took all these people captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 40:14Jer 40:7Jer 40:11-12Neh 2:10Neh 2:19Jer 22:30Jer 39:6Jer 43:5-7Jer 44:12-14Neh 13:4-8
Jeremiah 41:1111Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him heard about all the atrocities that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had committed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 40:13-16Jer 40:7-8Jer 41:2-3Jer 41:7Jer 42:1Jer 42:3Jer 43:2-5
Jeremiah 41:1212So they took all their troops and went to fight against Ishmael son of Nethaniah. They caught up with him near the large pool at Gibeon.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 2:131 Sam 30:1-8Gen 14:14-161 Sam 30:18-20
Jeremiah 41:1313When all the people that Ishmael had taken captive saw Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers with him, they were glad.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Jeremiah 41:1414All those people that Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Jeremiah 41:1515But Ishmael son of Nethaniah managed to escape from Johanan along with eight of his men, and he went on over to Ammon.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 21:30Prov 28:171 Kgs 20:201 Sam 30:172 Kgs 25:25Acts 28:4Eccl 8:11-12Jer 41:2
Jeremiah 41:1616Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him led off all the people who had been left alive at Mizpah. They had rescued them from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after he killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. They led off the men, women, children, soldiers, and court officials whom they had brought away from Gibeon.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 42:8Jer 43:4-7Jer 41:10
Jeremiah 41:1717They set out to go to Egypt to get away from the Babylonians, but stopped at Geruth Kimham near Bethlehem.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 19:37-38Jer 42:14Isa 30:2-3Jer 42:19Jer 43:7
Jeremiah 41:1818They were afraid of what the Babylonians might do because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 40:5Jer 42:16Luke 12:4-5Isa 51:12-13Isa 57:11Jer 42:11Jer 43:2-32 Kgs 25:25Isa 30:16-17
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