Jeremiah 40:1

Good News Translation

The Lord spoke to me after Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, had set me free at Ramah. I had been taken there in chains, along with all the other people from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken away as prisoners to Babylonia.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:1

In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and started to fortify Ramah in order to cut off all traffic in and out of Judah.

Psalm 107:16

He breaks down doors of bronze and smashes iron bars.

Psalm 68:6

He gives the lonely a home to live in and leads prisoners out into happy freedom, but rebels will have to live in a desolate land.

Jeremiah 31:15

The Lord says, “A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; they are gone, and she refuses to be comforted.

Jeremiah 39:9

Finally Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, together with those who had deserted to him.

Jeremiah 42:7

Ten days later the Lord spoke to me;

Ezekiel 33:21

On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year of our exile, someone who had escaped from Jerusalem came and told me that the city had fallen.

Acts 21:13

But he answered, “What are you doing, crying like this and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be tied up in Jerusalem but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 28:20

That is why I asked to see you and talk with you. As a matter of fact, I am bound in chains like this for the sake of him for whom the people of Israel hope.”

Ephesians 6:20

For the sake of this gospel I am an ambassador, though now I am in prison. Pray that I may be bold in speaking about the gospel as I should.

Joshua 18:25

There were also Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would go back to his home in Ramah, where also he would serve as judge. In Ramah he built an altar to the Lord.