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Jeremiah 39:13

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So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the captains of the king of Babylon

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;

KJV

So Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab–saris, and Nergal–sharezer, Rab–mag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;

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This verse in Jeremiah 39

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Nebuzar-adan is in the inscriptions Nabu-zir-iddina (Nebo has given offspring); and Nebushasban, Nabu-sizibanni (Nebo save me), whom some identify with Sarsechim Jer 39:3.

This site's exposition

gave charge concerning Jeremiah

on Jeremiah 39:11-14

Nebuchadnezzar's charge concerning Jeremiah comes by name and from the top of the empire itself, take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee, a foreign king honoring the prophet Judah's own king had imprisoned twice. The princes of Babylon carry out the order to the letter, taking Jeremiah from the court of the prison and committing him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, of the family that had already shielded Jeremiah once (26:24), so that he dwelt among the people rather than in exile, the bench noting the reversal that Babylon protects the man Jerusalem's own princes tried to drown in mire.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Jeremiah had been faithful to his trust as a prophet, and now God approves himself faithful to him and the promise he had made him. Now he is comforted according to the time wherein he had been afflicted, and sees thousands fall on each hand and himself safe. The false prophets fell by those judgments which they said should never come ( ch. xiv.

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So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard sent,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam who defected to the Chaldeans in compliance with Jeremiah’s orders, and when the city was taken, he appointed him governor over those remaining there.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 39:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֞חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times

  • נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָ֣ןNebuzaradan

    nevuzaradanH5018 →16 times

  • רַב־[the] chief of

    rav-H7227 →454 times

  • טַבָּחִ֗ים[the] bodyguards

    tabachimH2876 →32 times

  • וּנְבֽוּשַׁזְבָּן֙and Nebushazban

    unevushazbanH5021 →

  • רַב־[the] Rab-

    rav-H7249 →6 times

  • סָרִ֔יסsaris

    sarisH7249 →6 times

  • וְנֵרְגַ֥לand Nergal-

    veneregalH5371 →9 times

  • שַׂר־Shar-

    sar-H5371 →9 times

  • אֶ֖צֶרezer

    ʾetzerH5371 →9 times

  • רַב־[the] Rab-

    rav-H7248 →4 times

  • מָ֑גmag

    magH7248 →4 times

  • וְכֹ֖לand all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • רַבֵּ֥י[the] chiefs of

    rabeiH7227 →454 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • בָּבֶֽל׃Babylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 39:9

    Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 40:1

      This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…

    • Genesis 37:36

      Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

    • Jeremiah 52:26

      Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

    • 2 Kings 25:20

      Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

    • Jeremiah 10:18

      For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 39:3

    Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the officials of the…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 21:4

      this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans…

    • Jeremiah 38:17

      Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live,…

    • Jeremiah 1:15

      For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem.…

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 39 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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