Jeremiah 40

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 16 verses. Verse numbering The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from ''Brenton's Septuagint'', page 971. The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on ''Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta'' (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. ''Swete's Introduction'' mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS). Jeremiah 40 is a part of the "Sixteenth prophecy (Jeremiah 40-45)" in the section of ''Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life (Jeremiah 26-45). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah''. : {P} 40:1-6 {P} 40:7-12 {S} 40:13-16 {P} ==Jeremiah remains in Judah (40:1–6)==

Verses 1-6 retell the narrative in about the release of Jeremiah with additional details. Verse 1 :The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, 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 that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. (KJV) When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, he said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster for this place. And now the LORD has brought it about; he has done just as he said he would. All this happened because you people sinned against the LORD and did not obey him. • Cross reference: Jeremiah 39:14 Jeremiah was released into the protection of Gedaliah. ==Gedaliah governs in Judah (40:7–16)==

Verse 7 :And when all the captains of the armies who were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and the poorest of the land who had not been carried away captive to Babylon, • Cross reference: Jeremiah 39:10. • "Made ... governor in": in Hebrew literally, "set him over/made him overseer over” (cf. Genesis 39:4–5). ==See also==