JUDAH'S SCEPTRE AND JOSEPH'S BIRTHRIGHT #16 by J.H.Allen (published in 1917) A ROYAL REMNANT THAT ESCAPES When Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the Chaldean guard, gave Jeremiah privilege to go where he pleased, and provided him with all that was needful for the journey, the record further declares: "Then went Jeremiah unto Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land." (Jer.40:6.) The next verse of the same chapter states that the people who were still in the land were "the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon." This Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam, was the man whom the King of Babylon had made governor of what little there was left in Judea; for he had taken the masses of the people into captivity to Babylon and made servants of them. It seems that, since the capital city of Judea was now destroyed, Gedeliah had been compelled to set up a provincial government in some other city and had chosen Mizpah.
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JUDAH'S SCEPTRE AND JOSEPH'S BIRTHRIGHT #16 by J.H.Allen (published in 1917) A ROYAL REMNANT THAT ESCAPES When Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the Chaldean guard, gave Jeremiah privilege to go where he pleased, and provided him with all that was needful for the journey, the record further declares: "Then went Jeremiah unto Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land." (Jer.40:6.) The next verse of the same chapter states that the people who were still in the land were "the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon." This Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam, was the man whom the King of Babylon had made governor of what little there was left in Judea; for he had taken the masses of the people into captivity to Babylon and made servants of them. It seems that, since the capital city of Judea was now destroyed, Gedeliah had been compelled to set up a provincial government in some other city and had chosen Mizpah.