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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/jeremiah/41.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Murder of Gedaliah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But in midautumn of that year,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and had been one of the king’s high officials, went to Mizpah with ten men to meet Gedaliah. While they were eating together, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Ishmael and his ten men suddenly jumped up, drew their swords, and killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Ishmael also killed all the Judeans and the Babylonian<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> soldiers who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The next day, before anyone had heard about Gedaliah’s murder, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria to worship at the Temple of the LORD. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves, and had brought along grain offerings and frankincense. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Ishmael left Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When he reached them, he said, “Oh, come and see what has happened to Gedaliah!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But as soon as they were all inside the town, Ishmael and his men killed all but ten of them and threw their bodies into a cistern. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The other ten had talked Ishmael into letting them go by promising to bring him their stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey that they had hidden away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The cistern where Ishmael dumped the bodies of the men he murdered was the large one<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> dug by King Asa when he fortified Mizpah to protect himself against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with corpses.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Ishmael made captives of the king’s daughters and the other people who had been left under Gedaliah’s care in Mizpah by Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard. Taking them with him, he started back toward the land of Ammon.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But when Johanan son of Kareah and the other military leaders heard about Ishmael’s crimes, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>they took all their men and set out to stop him. They caught up with him at the large pool near Gibeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The people Ishmael had captured shouted for joy when they saw Johanan and the other military leaders. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And all the captives from Mizpah escaped and began to help Johanan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johanan into the land of Ammon.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Johanan son of Kareah and the other military leaders took all the people they had rescued in Gibeon—the soldiers, women, children, and court officials<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> whom Ishmael had captured after he killed Gedaliah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They took them all to the village of Geruth-kimham near Bethlehem, where they prepared to leave for Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They were afraid of what the Babylonians<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> would do when they heard that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonian king.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">41:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">in the seventh month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This month occurred within the months of October and November 586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">; also see note on 39:1a.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">41:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Chaldean.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">41:9 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">murdered because of Gedaliah was one.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">41:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">eunuchs.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">41:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Chaldeans.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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