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          DASV: Jeremiah 41    

1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family
and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men,
came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah. There they
ate bread together in Mizpah.
2 Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were
with him got up and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
son of Shaphan killing him with the sword. He was the one
whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over
the land.
3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at
Mizpah, including the Chaldeans soldiers who happened to be there.

4 The next day after he had assassinated Gedaliah, before
anyone knew it,
5 eighty men arrived from Shechem from Shiloh and Samaria,
with their beards shaved off, their clothes torn, and having
cut themselves, with grain offerings and incense in their
hand to present them at the house of the LORD.
6 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out of Mizpah to meet
them, weeping as he went. As he met them he said to them,
"Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam."
7 When they entered the middle of the city, Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him, slaughtered
them and threw their corpses into a cistern.
8 But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael,
"Do not kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, olive
oil, and honey hidden in a field." So he spared them and
did not kill them along with their companions.
9 Now the cistern in which Ishmael had thrown all the dead
bodies of those he had slain, along with Gedaliah, was the
one that King Asa had built as a defense against King
Baasha of Israel. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it
with those who had been killed.
10 Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who
were in Mizpah, including the king's daughters and all
the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive
and set out to go over to the Ammonites.

11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the military
commanders who were with him, heard of all the evil that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
12 they took all the men, and went to attack Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah. They found him by the great pool in Gibeon.
13 When all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the military commanders who were
with him, they were glad.
14 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive
from Mizpah turned around and went over joining Johanan
the son of Kareah.
15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan
with eight men and went to the Ammonites.

16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah took all the military
commanders that were with him, all those left of the people
whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
from Mizpah, after he had assassinated Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam, including the soldiers, women, children, and
the eunuchs whom Johanan brought back from Gibeon.
17 They left and settled in Geruth Chimham, which is near
Bethlehem, intending to head down to Egypt.
18 They were afraid of what the Chaldeans would do when
they found out that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had
assassinated Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king
of Babylon had made governor over the land.

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