Jeremiah 39:14

even they sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, gave him his liberty after the shameful imprisonment which he had suffered, and committed him unto Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, Ahikam being the man who had protected him on a former occasion, 26:24, that he should carry him home; so he dwelt among the people, as a free man, not as a captive under restraint. The apparent contradiction between this statement and that of 40:1 is very easily adjusted if we remember that Jeremiah, although transported to Ramah with the prisoners among his own countrymen, was still technically their prisoner, for he had not been released from his place in the court of the prison in Jerusalem. Nebuzar-adan separated Jeremiah from the other captives and gave him his choice of places to dwell.