{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_jer040_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_jer040_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_jer040_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/jer040.htm","summary":"This is a passage from the Hebrew Bible, specifically Jeremiah chapter 40, belonging to the prophetic literature tradition. It narrates events immediately after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem: the prophet Jeremiah is freed from captivity by Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian commander, who explicitly frames Judah's fall as divine punishment for disobedience \u2014 a theologically loaded acknowledgment put in the mouth of a foreign conqueror. Jeremiah chooses to remain in the land rather than go to Babylon, joining Gedaliah, the Babylonian-appointed Jewish governor at Mizpah, around whom a fragile remnant community begins to reconstitute as dispersed Jews return from neighboring nations. The passage then pivots to a political thriller: Johanan warns Gedaliah of an assassination plot by Ishmael, allegedly commissioned by the Ammonite king Baalis, but Gedaliah dismisses the warning and refuses to authorize a preemptive killing. The distinctive tension here is between Gedaliah's trusting, conciliatory governance and the dangerous instability of the post-conquest landscape, setting up what the following chapter reveals as his fatal naivety. Readers interested in biblical historiography, the theology of exile and remnant, or the political aftermath of the Babylonian conquest will find this passage a compact and dramatically charged entry point.","tags":["Book of Chronicles","Hebrew Bible Translation","Jewish Publication Society Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Jeremiah 40","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":698}