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Kareah

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14
Chapters
5
Books
2

Kareah appears in Scripture as the father of Johanan and Jonathan, military captains who remained in Judah after Jerusalem's fall and rallied resistance against the Babylonian occupation. Though they led men of war, their actions ultimately led to Jeremiah's captivity.

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"then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men came to Gedaliah to Mizpah."
Jeremiah 40

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2 Kings
25
v. 23
Jeremiah
40
v. 8
41
v. 11
42
v. 1
43
v. 2

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