Jeremiah 41:9 - Exposition

Now the pit … which Arm the king had made, etc. Nothing is said of this "pit" in the historical books, but only ( 1 Kings 15:22 = 2 Chronicles 16:6 ) that Asa used the material with which Baasha had fortified Ramah to build Geba and Mizpah. It would seem that this "pit" formed part of Asa's defensive works; probably it was a cistern to supply the town with water during the siege. Because of Gedaliah; was it. The rendering "because of" must be abandoned. The Septuagint has, in this part of the verse, the very natural words, "was a great pit," and this reading is adopted by Movers, Hitzig, and Graft.