Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ismail Ibn Nethaniah, Ibn Elishama, of the seed royal and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah Ibn Ahikam at Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah. 2Then Ismail Ibn Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah Ibn Ahikam, Ibn Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. 3Ismail also killed all the Jews who were with him, to wit, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. 4It happened the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it, 5that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Allah. 6Ismail Ibn Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah Ibn Ahikam. 7It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ismail Ibn Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. 8But ten men were found among those who said to Ismail, Do not kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and did not kill them among their brothers. 9Now the pit in which Ismail cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same pit which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel,) Ismail Ibn Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed. 10Then Ismail carried away captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah Ibn Ahikam; Ismail Ibn Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. 11But when Johanan Ibn Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ismail Ibn Nethaniah had done, 12then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ismail Ibn Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. 13Now it happened that, when all the people who were with Ismail saw Johanan Ibn Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad. 14So all the people who Ismail had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan Ibn Kareah. 15But Ismail IbnNethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. 16Then Johanan Ibn Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ismail Ibn Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah Ibn Ahikam, to wit, the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: 17and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, 18because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ismail Ibn Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah Ibn Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.