Jeremiah 41:8-10
Contemporary English Version
8 He let ten of the men live, because they offered to give him supplies of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey they had hidden in a field. 9 The well that he filled with bodies[a] had been dug by King Asa[b] of Judah to store rainwater, because he was afraid that King Baasha[c] of Israel might surround Mizpah and keep the people from getting to their water supply.
10 Nebuzaradan, King Nebuchadnezzar's[d] officer in charge of the guard, had left King Zedekiah's[e] daughters and many other people at Mizpah, and he had put Gedaliah in charge of them. But now Ishmael took them all prisoner and led them toward Ammon, on the other side of the Jordan River.
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