Jeremiah 40:1

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

The word that came to emiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of usalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

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  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
  • Josh 18:25 : 25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
  • Acts 12:6-7 : 6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. 7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 28:20 : 20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
  • Eph 6:20 : 20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
  • 1 Sam 7:17 : 17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
  • Ps 68:6 : 6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
  • Ps 107:16 : 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
  • Jer 39:11-14 : 11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning emiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying, 12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. 13 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's princes; 14 Even they sent, and took emiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

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  • Jer 39:9-11
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    9 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

    10 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

    11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning emiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,

  • 2 And the captain of the guard took emiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

  • 1 Now these are the words of the letter that emiah the prophet sent from usalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from usalem to Babylon;

  • 1 The word which came unto emiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against usalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,

  • Jer 39:13-15
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    13 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;

    14 Even they sent, and took emiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

    15 Now the word of the LORD came unto emiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

  • 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from usalem unto Babylon;

  • Jer 40:4-7
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    4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.

    5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

    6 Then went emiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

    7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

  • 20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

  • 20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from usalem to Babylon:

  • 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into usalem,

  • 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against usalem, and they besieged it.

  • Jer 43:5-6
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    5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

    6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and emiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

  • 8 This is the word that came unto emiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at usalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

  • 27 Then the word of the LORD came to emiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of emiah, saying,

  • Jer 37:5-6
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    5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged usalem heard tidings of them, they departed from usalem.

    6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet emiah, saying,

  • 5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of icho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

  • 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.

  • 17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And emiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

  • Jer 32:1-2
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    1 The word that came to emiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

    2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged usalem: and emiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

  • 26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

  • 12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to emiah from the LORD, saying,

  • 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

  • 20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from usalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and usalem;

  • 11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;

  • 1 The word which came to emiah from the LORD, saying,

  • 4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

  • 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

  • 59 The word which emiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

  • 12 Then came the word of the LORD unto emiah, saying,

  • 2 Chr 36:6-7
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    76%

    6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

    7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

  • 1 The word that came to emiah from the LORD, saying,

  • 28 So emiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that usalem was taken: and he was there when usalem was taken.

  • 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto emiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

  • 1 The word that came to emiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

  • 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Juh came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

  • 15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

  • 13 So they drew up emiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and emiah remained in the court of the prison.

  • 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto emiah from the LORD, saying,

  • 1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto emiah from the LORD, saying,