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Podcast: The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Episode: Jeremiah - Chapters 40-45
Description: In these chapters we see what happened after the fall of Jerusalem. The commander of the army of Babylon found Jeremiah and freed him. He chose to go back to Judah, even though the commander offered to take him to Babylon and take care of him. The king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, placed Gedaliah as governor of Judah. The poor were left there to tend the land and the crops, and we learned in 40:12 that they "harvested an abundance of wine and summer fruit." The army of Judah that escaped, and various Jews who had escaped to other countries, also...