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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 41 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/41.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/41-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Jeremiah 41</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/40.htm" title="Jeremiah 40">◄</a> Jeremiah 41 <a href="../jeremiah/42.htm" title="Jeremiah 42">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v24_41_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.1" class="v24_41_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But in the seventh month,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Ishmael<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.1!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> came to Mizpah with ten of his soldiers. He had been one of the king's officials and was a member of the royal family. Ishmael and his men were invited to eat with Gedaliah. </span><span class="v24_41_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.2" class="v24_41_2">2</span>During the meal, Ishmael and his soldiers killed Gedaliah, the man chosen as ruler of Judah by the king of Babylonia. </span><span class="v24_41_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.3" class="v24_41_3">3</span>Then they killed the Jews who were with Gedaliah, and they also killed the Babylonian soldiers who were there.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_41_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.4" class="v24_41_4">4</span>The next day, the murders had still not been discovered, </span><span class="v24_41_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.5" class="v24_41_5">5</span>when 80 men came down the road toward Mizpah from the towns of Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They were on their way to the temple to offer gifts of grain and incense to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves, because they were mourning.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_41_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.6" class="v24_41_6">6</span>Ishmael went out the town gate to meet them. He pretended to be weeping, and he asked them to come into Mizpah to meet with Gedaliah, the ruler of Judah. </span><span class="v24_41_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.7" class="v24_41_7">7</span>But after they were inside the town, Ishmael ordered his soldiers to kill them and throw their bodies into a well. </span><span class="v24_41_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.8" class="v24_41_8">8</span>He let ten of the men live, because they offered to give him supplies of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey they had hidden in a field. </span><span class="v24_41_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.9" class="v24_41_9">9</span>The well that he filled with bodies<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> had been dug by King Asa<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.9!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of Judah to store rainwater, because he was afraid that King Baasha<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.9!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of Israel might surround Mizpah and keep the people from getting to their water supply.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_41_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.10" class="v24_41_10">10</span>Nebuzaradan, King Nebuchadnezzar's<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> officer in charge of the guard, had left King Zedekiah's<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> daughters and many other people at Mizpah, and he had put Gedaliah in charge of them. But now Ishmael took them all prisoner and led them toward Ammon, on the other side of the Jordan River.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_41_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.11" class="v24_41_11">11</span>Johanan and the other army officers heard what Ishmael had done. </span><span class="v24_41_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.12" class="v24_41_12">12</span>So they and their troops chased Ishmael and caught up with him at the large pit at Gibeon. </span><span class="v24_41_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.13" class="v24_41_13">13</span>When Ishmael's prisoners saw Johanan and the officers, they were happy </span><span class="v24_41_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.14" class="v24_41_14">14</span>and turned around and ran toward Johanan. </span><span class="v24_41_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.15" class="v24_41_15">15</span>But Ishmael and eight of his men escaped and went to Ammon.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Johanan Decides To Take the People to Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_41_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.16" class="v24_41_16">16</span>Johanan and the officers had rescued the women, children, and royal officials that Ishmael had taken prisoner after killing Gedaliah. Johanan led the people from Gibeon </span><span class="v24_41_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.41.17-Jer.41.18" class="v24_41_17">17-18</span>toward Egypt. They wanted to go there, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians would do when they found out that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, the ruler appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.17-Jer.41.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s1">The People Ask Jeremiah To Pray for Them</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_41_17">On the way to Egypt, we<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.41.17-Jer.41.18!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> stopped at the town of Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">seventh month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Tishri, also called Ethanim, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-September to mid-October.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ishmael: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">with bodies: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation; Hebrew “with bodies of those killed by Gedaliah.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Asa: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Ruled 911–870 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Baasha: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Ruled 909–886 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Nebuchadnezzar's: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 21.2.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Zedekiah's: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.3.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.17,18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Nebuchadnezzar: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 21.2.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">41.17,18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">we: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The group of people included Jeremiah, since he had been staying with Gedaliah near Mizpah (see 40.6).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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