Jeremiah 40:10

Translations

Modern

As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”

Traditional

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

Literal

And I, behold, I will be dwelling at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans who will come to us; and you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.

Latin

Ecce ego habito in Masphath, ut respondeam præcepto Chaldæorum qui mittuntur ad nos: vos autem colligite vindemiam, et messem, et oleum, et condite in vasis vestris, et manete in urbibus vestris quas tenetis.

Original

Hebrew

English

As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”

Notes

Jeremiah 40:9–10

Gedaliah tried to convince the Judean fighters that living peacefully under Babylonian rule would lead to prosperity.

Jeremiah 40:7–12

The new government was organized under Gedaliah, who came from a high-ranking family. His grandfather, Shaphan, had given King Josiah the scroll of the law that started a reformation (2 Kings 22:10). Gedaliah’s father, Ahikam, held a high position among Jehoiakim’s officials and saved Jeremiah’s life (Jeremiah 26:24).

Theme notes and profiles

Baruch Jeremiah

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 40:12
…they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
Jeremiah 35:19
…this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
Jeremiah 48:32
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
2 Samuel 16:1
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
Deuteronomy 1:38
Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
Isaiah 16:9
So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
Jeremiah 39:10
But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
Proverbs 22:29
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Luke 21:36
So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Jeremiah 40:6
So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

Parallels

2 Kings 25:22–24

Places

Chaldea: Ancient Mesopotamian empire; known for astrology and wisdom Mizpah: A city in Benjamin; a place of gathering and judgment

Glossary

Ahikam Book of Jeremiah Gedaliah Johanan Kareah Mizpah Nethaniah Shaphan

Topics

Ahikam: Son of Shaphan Canaan: Land of Fruits Ishmael: Assassinated Gedaliah, Governor of Judah Under King of Babylon, and Takes Many Jews Captive Israel, Prophecies Concerning: The Poorest of the People Were Left to Occupy the Country Mizpah: Temporarily the Capitol of the Country After the People of Israel had been Carried Away Captive Prophecies Concerning Israel: Gedaliah's Adminstration Was Favorable to the People Summer: Fruits of Summer: Many Kinds of Fruit Were Ripe and Used During

Jeremiah 40:10

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