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Jeremiah 41
⁷ But as soon as they were all inside the town, Ishmael and his men killed all but ten of them and threw their bodies into a cistern.
⁸ The other ten had talked Ishmael into letting them go by promising to bring him their stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey that they had hidden away.
⁹ The cistern where Ishmael dumped the bodies of the men he murdered was the large one dug by King Asa when he fortified Mizpah to protect himself against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with corpses.
¹⁰ Then Ishmael made captives of the king’s daughters and the other people who had been left under Gedaliah’s care in Mizpah by Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard. Taking them with him, he started back toward the land of Ammon.
¹¹ But when Johanan son of Kareah and the other guerrilla leaders heard about Ishmael’s crimes,
¹² they took all their men and set out to stop him. They caught up with him at the large pool near Gibeon.
¹³ The people Ishmael had captured shouted for joy when they saw Johanan and the other guerrilla leaders.
¹⁴ And all the captives from Mizpah escaped and began to help Johanan.
¹⁵ Meanwhile, Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johanan into the land of Ammon.
¹⁶ Then Johanan son of Kareah and the other guerrilla leaders took all the people they had rescued in Gibeon—the soldiers, women, children, and court officials whom Ishmael had captured after he killed Gedaliah.
¹⁷ They took them all to the village of Geruth-kimham near Bethlehem, where they prepared to leave for Egypt.