¹⁰ I myself will stay at Mizpah^(A) to represent you before the Babylonians who come to us, but you are to harvest the wine,^(B) summer fruit and olive oil, and put them in your storage jars,^(C) and live in the towns you have taken over.”^(D)

¹² they all came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, from all the countries where they had been scattered.^(A) And they harvested an abundance of wine and summer fruit.

¹⁰ But Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people, who owned nothing; and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.

¹⁹ Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jehonadab son of Rekab will never fail^(A) to have a descendant to serve^(B) me.’”