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Jeremiah 41:13

in Jeremiah 41

When all the people with Ishmael saw Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the army with him, they rejoiced,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now it came to pass that, when all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

KJV

Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

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This verse in Jeremiah 41

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Now it came to pass, that, when all the people which were with Ishmael,.... That is, those which he had brought captives from Mizpah; not those that came with him thither: saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, they were glad; looking upon them as their deliverers; hoping by their means to be preserved from being carried captives to the king of Ammon.

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 words behind it

18 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.

  • וַיְהִ֗יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כִּרְא֤וֹתwhen saw

    kirotH7200 →1300 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָם֙the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אֶת־[was] with

    ʾet-H854 →929 times

  • יִשְׁמָעֵ֔אלIshmael

    yishmaelH3458 →48 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יֽוֹחָנָן֙Johanan

    yochananH3110 →22 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • קָרֵ֔חַKareah

    kareachH7143 →14 times

  • וְאֵ֛תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • שָׂרֵ֥י[the] commanders of

    sareiH8269 →421 times

  • הַחֲיָלִ֖יםthe armies

    hachayalimH2428 →246 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אִתּ֑וֹ[were] with him

    ʾitoH854 →929 times

  • וַיִּשְׂמָֽחוּ׃and they were glad

    vaiyismachuH8055 →155 times

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

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 Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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