Jeremiah 40:10-12

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¹⁰ I myself will live in Mizpah and will ·speak for you [represent you; ^Lstand] before the ·Babylonians [^LChaldeans] who come to us here. Harvest the wine, the summer fruit, and the oil, and put what you harvest in your storage jars. Live in the towns you control.”

¹¹ The ·Jews [^LJudeans] in Moab, ·Ammon [^Lthe sons of Ammon], Edom, and other countries also heard that the king of Babylon had left a ·few Jews alive in the land [^Lremnant in Judea]. And they heard the king of Babylon had ·chosen [appointed] Gedaliah as governor over them. (Gedaliah was the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.) ¹² When the people of Judah heard this news, they came back to Judah from all the countries where they had been scattered. They came to Gedaliah at Mizpah and gathered a large harvest of wine and summer fruit.