Jeremiah 40:12

Easy To Read Version

When those people of Judah heard that news, they came back to the land of Judah. They came back to Gedaliah at Mizpah from all the countries where they had been scattered. So they came back and gathered a large harvest of wine and summer fruit.

Cross References

Isaiah 16:9

“I will cry with the peopleof Jazer and Sibmah\par because the grapes have been destroyed.\par I will cry with the people\par of Heshbon and Elealeh\par because there will be no harvest.\par There will be no summer fruit.\par And there will be no shouts of joy.\par

Jeremiah 40:10

I, myself, will live in Mizpah. I will speak for you before the Chaldean people that come here. You people leave that work to me. You should harvest the wine, the summer fruit, and the oil. Put what you harvest in your storage jars. Live in the towns that you have taken control of.”

Jeremiah 40:13

Johanan son of Kareah and all the officers of the army of Judah that were still in the open country came to Gedaliah. Gedaliah was at the town of Mizpah.

Jeremiah 41:10

Ishmael captured all the other people in the town of Mizpah and started to cross over to the country of the Ammonite people. (Those people included the king’s daughters, and all the other people that were left there. Nebuzaradan, the commander of the king of Babylon’s special guards, had chosen Gedaliah to watch over those people.)

Jeremiah 43:5

But instead of obeying the Lord, Johanan and the army officers took those survivors {\cf2\super [348]} from Judah to Egypt. In the past, the enemy had taken those survivors to other countries. But they had come back to Judah.

Jeremiah 44:18

But then we stopped making sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven. And we stopped pouring out drink offerings to her. Since we have stopped doing those things in worship to her, we have had problems. Our people have been killed by swords and hunger.”

Ezekiel 34:6

My flock wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over all the face of the earth. There was no one to search or to look for them.’”