And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Jeremiah 41:4 belongs to the history of the two years before the fall of Jerusalem told in chapters 32 to 45, including the prophecies uttered during the reign of Gedaliah. More narrowly it stands in chapters 40 to 45, which in chronological order follow Jeremiah 39:1-14 and come before Jeremiah 47 and 46.
That part of Jeremiah is not arranged in strict chronological order, and after chapter 20 the canonical order differs from the chronological order because the manuscript rolls were gathered into one book. The displacement makes no change in the teaching, and the chapter itself indicates its chronology. In suggested chronological sequence chapter 41 comes after chapter 40 and before chapter 42.
The verse comes on the second day after Gedaliah was slain, with no man knowing it, in the account of the Jews left in Judah after Zedekiah's captivity when Babylon carried the nation away. Gedaliah was the Jewish viceroy left by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, after the destruction of Jerusalem, and he was assassinated at Mizpah. The account describes how the king of Ammon dispersed the Jews who remained in Judah, scattering the remnant left by the king of Babylon. Their later course included flight into Egypt.
The assassination of Gedaliah led to the Jews' seventh-month fast, which they observed for seventy years. The murder is commemorated by the Fast of Gedaliah on Tisri 3, one of four fasts commemorating events connected with the fall of Jerusalem. Like the other three fasts it begins at daybreak.
Jeremiah 41:4 belongs to the history of the two years before the fall of Jerusalem told in chapters 32 to 45, including the prophecies uttered during the reign of Gedaliah. More narrowly it stands in chapters 40 to 45, which in chronological order follow Jeremiah 39:1-14 and come before Jeremiah 47 and 46.
That part of Jeremiah is not arranged in strict chronological order, and after chapter 20 the canonical order differs from the chronological order because the manuscript rolls were gathered into one book. The displacement makes no change in the teaching, and the chapter itself indicates its chronology. In suggested chronological sequence chapter 41 comes after chapter 40 and before chapter 42.
The verse comes on the second day after Gedaliah was slain, with no man knowing it, in the account of the Jews left in Judah after Zedekiah's captivity when Babylon carried the nation away. Gedaliah was the Jewish viceroy left by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, after the destruction of Jerusalem, and he was assassinated at Mizpah. The account describes how the king of Ammon dispersed the Jews who remained in Judah, scattering the remnant left by the king of Babylon. Their later course included flight into Egypt.
The assassination of Gedaliah led to the Jews' seventh-month fast, which they observed for seventy years. The murder is commemorated by the Fast of Gedaliah on Tisri 3, one of four fasts commemorating events connected with the fall of Jerusalem. Like the other three fasts it begins at daybreak.