Jeremiah 40:5

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Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.

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The Assyrian and Babylonian ExileThe kingdoms of Judah and Israel with the routes of the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities.

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Mizpah, north of Jerusalem in Benjamin, became the administrative center where Babylon’s Chaldean authorities placed Gedaliah over Judah’s remaining people after Jerusalem’s fall

Places in this passage

Jeremiah 40:5 mentions Ammon, Babylon, Chaldea, Edom, Jerusalem, Mizpah, Moab and Ramah.

Photo of Ammon — Ammon · Berthold Werner

Photo of Babylon — Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky

Photo of Chaldea — Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.