Today, I am reading and commenting on Jeremiah 39-41.

I have some scattered thoughts about today’s passage.  Earlier in the Book of Jeremiah it recounted an incident where some officials arrested Jeremiah because they thought he was an agent of the Babylonians.  Today, when it recounts how the Babylonians treated Jeremiah, it almost seems as if they were rewarding him for the prophecies which he spoke before the fall of Jerusalem.   I may come back to this thought again tomorrow.  Another thing of interest is that when the Jews who had fled into the surrounding countries during the war returned, they had a bountiful harvest.  I was struck by the fact that Jeremiah had earlier prophesied that some of the Jews would flee to Egypt and suffer a terrible fate there.  This prophecy was apparently fulfilled as a result of the assassination of Gedaliah, the man whom the Babylonians had appointed as governor.  I will note that immediately after overtaking Ishmael and freeing those he had taken prisoner, they began to flee to Egypt.  This also becomes relevant to tomorrow’s passage.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.