³ Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring ^(A)some of the children of Israel and some of the king’s descendants and some of the nobles,

⁷ ‘And they shall take away some of your ^(A)sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

¹⁷ ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, ^(A)shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord. ¹⁸ ‘And ^(B)they shall take away some of your sons who will ^[a]descend from you, whom you will beget; ^(C)and they shall be ^(D)eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

¹⁵ And ^(A)he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Insurrection Against Gedaliah

41 Now it came to pass in the seventh month ^(A)that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal ^[a]family and of the officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at ^(B)Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah.