Jeremiah 41:4-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁴ The next day, the day after Gedaliah was assassinated, before anyone knew about it, ⁵ men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria—eighty men in all—with their beards shaved, their clothing torn, and their bodies gashed.^[a] They came bringing grain offerings and incense to the House of the Lord. ⁶ Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.” ⁷ When they got to the middle of the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him began to kill them, throwing their bodies into a cistern. ⁸ But ten of them said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us! We have food hidden in the countryside: wheat, barley, oil, and honey!”

So he stopped and did not murder them along with the others. ⁹ Now the cistern into which Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of the murdered men was a large one,^[b] which had been built by King Asa to defend against Ba’asha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the murdered men.