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Ahikam to be temporary governor over the land with headquarters at Mizpah.

Since Jeremiah, the Prophet, elected to stay in the land rather than go to Babylon,

he was committed to the care of Gedaliah by Nebuzar-Adan.

It was with no sense of triumph that the general of the Babylonian armies returned
across the plains to Babylon. He had no great sense of personal guilt in connection with

the destruction of Jerusalem since he had done it under orders, but he had grave
misgivings about it all. He felt that his royal master had been wrongly motivated in
giving the command. An unnamed fear gripped his heart and a strange foreboding that
some kind of disaster was in store for the king as a retribution for treading down the

Holy City of the Jews. And if calamity came to the king, it would come to the realm of
Babylon as well; so closely did he see that the destiny of the empire was linked with its
king. This man, Nebuzar-Adan, had begun to fear the God of the Hebrews!