Jeremiah 41:1-9

1 In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king’s officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating together there,
2 Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the land.
3 Ishmael also killed all the men of Judah who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Babylonian[a] soldiers who were there.
4 The day after Gedaliah’s assassination, before anyone knew about it,
5 eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the LORD.
6 Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When he met them, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”
7 When they went into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.
8 But ten of them said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us! We have wheat and barley, olive oil and honey, hidden in a field.” So he let them alone and did not kill them with the others.
9 Now the cistern where he threw all the bodies of the men he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one King Asa had made as part of his defense against Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.

Cross References 20

  • 1. S Jeremiah 40:8
  • 2. Psalms 41:9; Psalms 109:5
  • 3. S Joshua 11:10; Jeremiah 40:15; Hebrews 11:37
  • 4. S Jeremiah 40:5
  • 5. 2 Samuel 3:27; 2 Samuel 20:9-10; S Jeremiah 40:8
  • 6. S Leviticus 19:27; Jeremiah 47:5; Jeremiah 48:37
  • 7. S Genesis 37:29; S Leviticus 10:6; S Mark 14:63
  • 8. S Leviticus 19:28
  • 9. Genesis 12:6; Genesis 33:18; Judges 9:1-57; 1 Kings 12:1
  • 10. S Joshua 18:1
  • 11. 1 Kings 16:24
  • 12. S Numbers 16:40; S Luke 1:9
  • 13. 1 Kings 3:2; 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 25:9
  • 14. 2 Samuel 3:16
  • 15. Psalms 5:9; Hosea 7:11; Revelation 20:10
  • 16. S Genesis 37:24; 2 Kings 10:14
  • 17. Isaiah 45:3
  • 18. S 1 Kings 15:22; S 2 Chronicles 16:6
  • 19. S Judges 6:2
  • 20. S 2 Chronicles 16:1

Footnotes 1

Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.