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Jeremiah 41:12

in Jeremiah 41

they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

KJV

Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

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This verse in Jeremiah 41

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
An open pool still exists at Gibeon, and a large subterranean reservoir fed by a copious natural spring. Gibeon is about two miles north of Mizpah.

This site's exposition

heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done

on Jeremiah 41:11-15

Johanan and the other captains hear of Ishmael's massacre and pursue him, overtaking him at the great waters of Gibeon, and when the captive people see Johanan's forces they turn back to him with relief. Keil notes the captives' quick defection shows they went with Ishmael by force rather than sympathy, glad for rescue rather than resistant to it. Ishmael himself escapes with only eight men to the Ammonites, Baalis's territory offering him refuge from the vengeance Johanan's larger force could have exacted.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then they took all the men,....

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וַיִּקְחוּ֙and they took

    vaiyikchuH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔יםthe men

    haanashimH582 →566 times

  • וַיֵּ֣לְכ֔וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • לְהִלָּחֵ֖םto do battle

    lehilachemH3898 →177 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • יִשְׁמָעֵ֣אלIshmael

    yishmaelH3458 →48 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • נְתַנְיָ֑הNethaniah

    netanyahH5418 →20 times

  • וַיִּמְצְא֣וּand they found

    vaiyimtzeuH4672 →455 times

  • אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מַ֥יִםwater

    mayimH4325 →581 times

  • רַבִּ֖יםgreat

    rabimH7227 →454 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃[is] in Gibeon

    begivonH1391 →38 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    2 Samuel 2:13

    So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:16

      Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    • 1 Chronicles 2:16

      Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.

    • 2 Samuel 20:23

      Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;

    • 1 Chronicles 11:6

      Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

    • 2 Samuel 2:18

      The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 41 →

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 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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