August 6, 2022: Day 167 – Jeremiah 38-42 and Psalm 55

Babylon finally breaches the wall and enters the city.  Once that happens a number of things take place.  A remnant of the people flee toward Egypt even though Jeremiah had told them that those who go with the invading Babylonians will be saved.  We see the assassination of Gedaliah who was put in power by the Babylonians.  What that happens then all chaos breaks loose.  There are those who stay in the land as placed there by the Babylonians.  They are specified as the poor who had nothing before, and now are given land and the opporturtinity to plant and reap their own crops.  That’s a bonus.