¹⁶ Kareah’s son Jonathan and all the military leaders who were with him took all the rest of the people from Mizpah whom he had rescued^[a] from Nethaniah’s son Ishmael after he had killed Ahikam’s son Gedaliah, including the young men, the soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs^[b] whom he had rescued from Gibeon. ¹⁷ They traveled and then stopped at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem on their way to Egypt ¹⁸ because of the Chaldeans. They were afraid of the Chaldeans^[c] because Nethaniah’s son Ishmael had killed Ahikam’s son Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.