¹⁵ But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites.

²⁰ And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry.

¹⁷ Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

⁴ So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live.”

² Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and ^(A)struck Gedaliah the son of ^(B)Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made ^(C)governor over the land.

^11 (A)Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. ^12 (B)Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that ^(C)it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

²⁵ But ^(A)it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck and killed Gedaliah, the Jews, as well as the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.