Jeremiah 42:5

amongst better, as mg. against, i.e. to bear witness and punish us if we fail to do our part as we now promise.

from all the nations These words, as implying a much wider dispersion of inhabitants of the Southern kingdom than had actually taken place, may be a scribe's insertion from ch. Jeremiah 40:11 f. The LXX omit "from all the nations … driven."