18 A cause des Caldéens; car ils les craignaient, parce qu'Ismaël, fils de Néthania, avait tué Guédalia, fils d'Achikam, que le roi de Babylone avait établi sur le pays.
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to escape the Babylonians. They were afraid of them because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the land.
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