Jeremiah 41:10

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Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.

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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, was the Babylonian-appointed center of Judah after Jerusalem’s fall; Ishmael seized its survivors and headed toward Ammon, east of the Jordan, where King Baalis supported him. Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem marks the refugees’ later stop as they fled toward Egypt, fearing Babylonian reprisals.

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Jeremiah 41:10 mentions Ammon, Babylon, Bethlehem, Chaldea, Egypt, Geruth Chimham, Gibeon, Jerusalem, Mizpah, Samaria, Shechem and Shiloh.

Photo of Ammon — Ammon · Berthold Werner

Photo of Babylon — Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky

Photo of Bethlehem — Bethlehem · Berthold Werner

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