Yeremya 40:9

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

9 Şafan oğlu Ahikam oğlu Gedalya onlara ve adamlarına ant içerek, ‹‹Kildanilere kulluk etmekten korkmayın›› dedi, ‹‹Ülkeye yerleşip Babil Kralına hizmet edin. Böylesi sizin için daha iyi olur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sware: 1 Samuel 20:16, 1 Samuel 20:17, 2 Kings 25:24

Fear: Jeremiah 27:11, Jeremiah 38:17-20, Genesis 49:15, Psalms 37:3, Psalms 128:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:3 - fear not 2 Chronicles 34:20 - Ahikam Jeremiah 27:8 - that nation Lamentations 5:9 - General Matthew 1:20 - fear not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan aware unto them and to their men,.... They might express their fears, that should they continue with Gedaliah, as they were inclined to do, could they be safe; that seeing they had encouraged Zedekiah to hold out the siege to the last against the Chaldeans, and they should hear where they were, would demand them, and they, should be taken and delivered up into their hands; upon which Gedaliah not only promises them safety, but swears to them that they should live safely with him, and never be delivered up to the Chaldeans, and that he would undertake to indemnify them, and preserve them:

saying, fear not to serve the Chaldeans; as if it was an evil to do it; or as if their yoke was hard and intolerable; or as if it would be unprofitable, and turn to no account; or they should be always in danger of their lives:

dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall he well with you; settle in the land, and do not rove about from place to place like fugitives; nor go out of the land through fear of the king of Babylon, but continue in it, and live in subjection to him, and depend upon it you will live comfortably and safely.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To serve the Chaldeans - literally, as margin; to be their minister and lieutenant. Gedaliah supposed that officers of high rank would come from time to time from Babylon to look after the king’s interests. But whatever was ordered would be done through him, as being the prime minister.

Gather ye wine - As Jerusalem was captured in the fifth month, August, it would now be autumn, and there would be fruit upon the trees, enough to maintain the scanty population during the winter.

Taken - Or, seized. Every captain had probably occupied some place by force as his head quarters, and Gedaliah bids them retain them. He frankly accepts the whole existing state of things, as a necessary step toward re-establishing confidence.