Jeremiah 40:6

Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show myself to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

In Context

5to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:

7And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.

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Cross References

Joshua 18:26and Massema, and Miron, and Amoke;

Judges 21:1Now the children of Israel swore in Massephath, saying, No man of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.

Jeremiah 39:14Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and thou shalt put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 40:2-7

The Preservation of Jeremiah; Jeremiah's Adherence to Gedaliah. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. 2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. 3 Now the Lord hath brought it, and… Read the whole commentary →

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