Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
Committed
Ahikam
General references
Bible References
Took
Jeremiah 39:15
This message from the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was confined in the courtyard of the guard:
Jeremiah 37:21
So King Zedekiah gave the order, and they assigned Jeremiah to the courtyard of the guard. Each day they gave him a loaf of bread from the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
Jeremiah 38:13
They pulled Jeremiah with the ropes and brought him up from the cistern, but Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
Jeremiah 40:1
This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had released him from Ramah, when he was bound in chains, along with all the exiles from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken into exile in Babylon.
Psalm 105:19
until the time his prediction came true, as the word of the LORD refined him.
Committed
Jeremiah 40:5
When he still did not respond, Nebuzaradan said, "Return to Ahikam's son Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and remain with him among the people or go wherever it seems right for you to go." Then the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a gift and sent him off.
Jeremiah 41:1
In the seventh month, Nethaniah's son Ishmael, the grandson of Elishama, a member of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, came to Ahikam's son Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with ten men. While they were dining together there at Mizpah,
2 Kings 25:22
Now as for the people who remained in the land of Judah whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had left behind, he appointed Ahikam's son Gedaliah, the grandson of Shaphan, to rule.
Ahikam
Jeremiah 26:24
Yet because Shaphan's son Ahikam supported Jeremiah, he was not handed over to the people for them to kill.
General references
Jeremiah 38:28
Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.