To serve the Chaldeans - literally, as noted in the margin: to be their minister and lieutenant. Gedaliah supposed that officers of high ran…

Fear not to serve the Chaldeans ... —Gedaliah, acting as Satrap of the province, assures them that, though they had fough…

Here, as I have hinted, is explained the great humanity of Gedaliah, and also his pious concern for his own nation, so that the treachery and cruel…

And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to
them and to their men
They m…

Jeremiah had never in his prophecies spoken of any good days for the Jews, to come immediately after the captivity; yet Providence seemed to encour…

This pa age describes the a embly of the princes.

1. Their gathering is described: and when all the captains of the army had heard...…