Jeremiah 40:1

New English Translation

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan the captain of the royal guard had set him free at Ramah. He had taken him there in chains along with all the people from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried off to exile to Babylon.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:1

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah.

Psalm 107:16

For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

Psalm 68:6

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

Jeremiah 31:15

The Lord says, “A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.”

Jeremiah 39:9

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him.

Jeremiah 42:7

Ten days later the Lord spoke to Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 33:21

In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, a refugee came to me from Jerusalem saying, “The city has been defeated!”

Acts 21:13

Then Paul replied, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 28:20

So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel.”

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.

Joshua 18:25

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there.