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Jeremiah 41:15

in Jeremiah 41

But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and went to the Ammonites.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

KJV

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

This verse in Jeremiah 41

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men,.... Of the ten he brought with hin), Jer 41:1; two of them being slain in this skirmish, or taken by Johanan, or they fled another way: and went to the Ammonites; who had put him upon, or however encouraged and assisted him in, his wicked attempts; though he returned to them not according to their wishes, nor with that honour and glory he thought to have done.

This site's exposition

heard of all the crimes that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had committed

on Jeremiah 41:11-15

Johanan and the commanders pursue Ishmael and find him “near the great pool in Gibeon.” When the captives see Johanan, “they rejoiced” and went over, which shows they had been taken by force. Ishmael escapes with eight men to the Ammonites, the land of Baalis who had sent him.

This site's exposition

eight of his men escaped

Ishmael came to Mizpah with ten men and leaves with eight. John Gill supposes the other two were killed in the skirmish, taken, or fled another way. He returns to the Ammonites who had set him on, Gill adds, without the honor he had hoped to win.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְיִשְׁמָעֵ֣אלand Ishmael

    veyishmaelH3458 →48 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • נְתַנְיָ֗הNethaniah

    netanyahH5418 →20 times

  • נִמְלַט֙he escaped

    nimlatH4422 →95 times

  • בִּשְׁמֹנָ֣הwith eight

    bishmonahH8083 →109 times

  • אֲנָשִׁ֔יםmen

    ʾanashimH582 →566 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֖יfrom before

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יֽוֹחָנָ֑ןJohanan

    yochananH3110 →22 times

  • וַיֵּ֖לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עַמּֽוֹן׃ סAmmon

    amonH5983 →106 times

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

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

    Proverbs 28:17

    A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 9:6

      Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

    • Exodus 21:14

      But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.

    • 1 Kings 21:19

      Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where…

  • Through

    Job 21:30

    Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 16:4

      The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

    • 2 Peter 2:9–17

      if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

  • Through

    2 Kings 25:25

    In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the…

    it leads to

    • Zechariah 7:5

      “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

    • Zechariah 8:19

      “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of…

  • Through

    1 Samuel 30:17

    And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 11:11

      The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the…

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

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.