Discovery BoxJeremiah 16:5 
Context16:5 “Moreover I, the Lord, tell you: 1 ‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, 2 my love, and my compassion. I, the Lord, so affirm it! 3
Jeremiah 25:10
Context25:10 I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. 4 I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses. 5
Jeremiah 41:1
Context41:1 But in the seventh month 6 Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama who was a member of the royal family and had been one of Zedekiah’s chief officers, came with ten of his men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating a meal together with him there at Mizpah,
1 tn Heb “For thus says the
2 tn Heb “my peace.” The Hebrew word שְׁלוֹמִי (shÿlomi) can be translated “peace, prosperity” or “well-being” (referring to wholeness or health of body and soul).
3 tn Heb “Oracle of the
4 sn Compare Jer 7:24 and 16:9 for this same dire prediction limited to Judah and Jerusalem.
5 sn The sound of people grinding meal and the presence of lamps shining in their houses were signs of everyday life. The
6 sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).
