10 As for me, I am going to live in Mizpah to represent you[a] before the Chaldeans(A) who come to us. As for you, gather wine, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have captured.”

11 When all the Judeans in Moab(B) and among the Ammonites and in(C) Edom and in all the other lands(D) also heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, over them, 12 they all returned from all the places where they had been banished(E) and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and harvested a great amount of wine and summer fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:10 Lit to stand

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