# Jeremiah 41 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jeremiah_41 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jeremiah_41.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_41 > Source revision: 1114770158 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) For Jeremiah 41 in the Septuagint, see [Jeremiah 34](/source/Jeremiah_34). **Jeremiah 41** is the forty-first [chapter](/source/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible) of the [Book of Jeremiah](/source/Book_of_Jeremiah) in the [Hebrew Bible](/source/Hebrew_Bible) or the [Old Testament](/source/Old_Testament) of the [Christian](/source/Christianity) [Bible](/source/Bible). This book contains prophecies attributed to the [prophet](/source/Biblical_prophet) [Jeremiah](/source/Jeremiah), and is one of the [Books of the Prophets](/source/Nevi'im). This chapter is part of a narrative section consisting of chapters [37](/source/Jeremiah_37) to [44](/source/Jeremiah_44).[1] Chapter 41 recounts the murder of [Gedaliah](/source/Gedaliah), the [Babylonian](/source/Babylon) governor of occupied [Judah](/source/Kingdom_of_Judah), and the chaotic situation which followed this event.[2] Jeremiah himself is not mentioned in this chapter. ## Text The original text was written in [Hebrew](/source/Biblical_Hebrew). [This chapter is divided into](/source/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible) 18 verses. ### Verse numbering The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and [Vulgate](/source/Vulgate) (Latin), in some places differs from that in the [Septuagint](/source/Septuagint) (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the [Eastern Orthodox Church](/source/Eastern_Orthodox_Church) and others) according to [Rahlfs](/source/Alfred_Rahlfs) or [Brenton](/source/Lancelot_Charles_Lee_Brenton). The following table is taken with minor adjustments from *Brenton's Septuagint*, page 971.[3] The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on *[Alfred Rahlfs](/source/Alfred_Rahlfs)' Septuaginta* (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in *Göttingen LXX*. *Swete's Introduction* mostly agrees with Rahlfs edition (=CATSS).[3] Hebrew, Vulgate, English Rahlfs' LXX (CATSS) 41:1-18 48:1-18 34:1-22 41:1-22 ### Textual witnesses Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language) are of the [Masoretic Text](/source/Masoretic_Text) tradition, which includes the [Codex Cairensis](/source/Codex_Cairensis) (895), [the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets](/source/Codex_Babylonicus_Petropolitanus) (916), [Aleppo Codex](/source/Aleppo_Codex) (10th century), [Codex Leningradensis](/source/Leningrad_Codex) (1008).[4] There is also a translation into [Koine Greek](/source/Koine_Greek) known as the [Septuagint](/source/Septuagint) (with a different chapter and verse numbering), made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the [Septuagint](/source/Septuagint) version include [Codex Vaticanus](/source/Codex_Vaticanus) (**B**; \mathfrak{G}B; 4th century), [Codex Sinaiticus](/source/Codex_Sinaiticus) (**S**; [BHK](/source/Biblia_Hebraica_(Kittel)): \mathfrak{G}S; 4th century), [Codex Alexandrinus](/source/Codex_Alexandrinus) (**A**; \mathfrak{G}A; 5th century) and [Codex Marchalianus](/source/Codex_Marchalianus) (**Q**; \mathfrak{G}Q; 6th century).[5] ## Parashot The *[parashah](/source/Parashah)* sections listed here are based on the [Aleppo Codex](/source/Aleppo_Codex).[6] Jeremiah 41 is a part of the "*Sixteenth prophecy ([Jeremiah 40](/source/Jeremiah_40)-45)*" in the section of *Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life ([Jeremiah 26](/source/Jeremiah_26)-45)*. {P}: open *parashah*; {S}: closed *parashah*. - {P} 41:1-10 {S} 41:11-15 {S} 41:16-18 {P} ## The assassination of Gedaliah (41:1–10) ### Verse 1 - *Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and of the officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah.*[7] - "Family": lit. "seed"[8] Ishmael and his men murdered Gedaliah and others in [Mizpah](/source/Mizpah_in_Benjamin) during a mealtime when the covenant community is celebrated and the people were less guarded.[2] ### Verse 2 - *Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.*[9] - "Smote Gedaliah": The day when Gedaliah was murdered (the third day of the seventh month) was remembered as a fast day by the post-Captivity Jews ([Zechariah 7:5](/source/Zechariah_7:5); [Zechariah 8](/source/Zechariah_8):19), because on that day the hope of living a separate life in the promised land vanished, and the murder was likely avenged by a third deportation of Jews as mentioned in Jeremiah 52:30.[10] ## Johanan rescues the captives (41:11–18) ### Verse 16 - *Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah after he had murdered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam—the mighty men of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.*[11] Johanan led a group to defeat Ishmael at Gibeon, 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest of [Mizpah](/source/Mizpah_in_Benjamin) (), freeing their captives after Ishmael and 8 others escaped to Ammon ().[12] ## See also - [Babylon](/source/Babylon) - [Bethlehem](/source/Bethlehem) - [Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Saphan](/source/Gedaliah) - [Ishmael son of Nethaniah](/source/Ishmael_son_of_Nethaniah) - [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem) - [Mizpah](/source/Mizpah_in_Benjamin) - Related [Bible](/source/Bible) part: [Jeremiah 40](/source/Jeremiah_40), [Jeremiah 42](/source/Jeremiah_42), [Jeremiah 52](/source/Jeremiah_52) ## References 1. Coogan 2007, pp. 1137–1138 Hebrew Bible. 1. O'Connor 2007, p. 520. 1. ["Table of Order of Jeremiah in Hebrew and Septuagint"](https://www.ccel.org/bible/brenton/Jeremiah/appendix.html). *www.ccel.org* 1. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37. 1. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74. 1. As reflected in the [Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English](http://mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm) 1. [NKJV](/source/New_King_James_Version) 1. Note [a] on Jeremiah 41:1 in [New King James Version](/source/New_King_James_Version) 1. Jubilee Bible 2000 1. Exell, Joseph S.; Spence-Jones, Henry Donald Maurice (Editors). [On "Jeremiah 41".](http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/41.htm) In: *The [Pulpit Commentary](/source/Pulpit_Commentary)*. 23 volumes. First publication: 1890. Accessed 24 April 2019. 1. NKJV 1. Coogan 2007, p. 1143 Hebrew Bible. ## Bibliography - Coogan, Michael David (2007). [*The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version, Issue 48*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HmpMPgAACAAJ). Augmented 3rd ed. Coogan, Michael David; Brettler, Marc Zvi; Newsom, Carol Ann; Perkins, Pheme (eds.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195288810. - Huey, F. B. (1993). [*The New American Commentary - Jeremiah, Lamentations: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture, NIV Text*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HBguYZCdAM4C). B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 9780805401165. - O'Connor, Kathleen M. (2007). ["23. Jeremiah"](https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJdVkgEACAAJ). *The Oxford Bible Commentary*. first (paperback) ed. Barton, John & Muddiman, John (eds.). Oxford University Press. pp. 487–533. ISBN 978-0199277186. Retrieved February 6, 2019. - Thompson, J. A. (1980). [*A Book of Jeremiah*](https://archive.org/details/bookofjeremiah00thom). The [New International Commentary on the Old Testament](/source/New_International_Commentary_on_the_Old_Testament). illustrated, revised ed. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9780802825308. - Würthwein, Ernst (1995). [*The Text of the Old Testament*](https://books.google.com/books?id=FSNKSBObCYwC). Translated by Rhodes, Erroll F. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-0788-7. Retrieved January 26, 2019. ## External links ### Jewish - [Jeremiah 41 Hebrew with Parallel English](http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1141.htm) ### Christian - [Jeremiah 41, English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate](http://www.latinvulgate.com/lv/verse.aspx?t=0&b=28&c=41) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jeremiah 41](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_41) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_41?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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