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11 And also all the Judeans who were in Moab, and among the Ammonites,[a] and in Edom, and who were in all the lands, when they heard that the king of Babylon had given a remnant to Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, in an official position over them, 12 then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they were scattered. And they came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit that yielded in great abundance.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 40:11 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  2. Jeremiah 40:12 Literally “very numerous”

11 When all the Judeans in Moab(A) and among the Ammonites and in(B) Edom and in all the other lands(C) 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(D) 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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