⁴ Now it happened on the ^[a]next day after putting Gedaliah to death, when no one knew about it, ⁵ that eighty men ^(A)came from ^(B)Shechem, from ^(C)Shiloh, and from ^(D)Samaria with ^(E)their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and ^[b]their bodies ^(F)gashed, having grain offerings and frankincense in their hands to bring to the ^(G)house of Yahweh. ⁶ Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, ^(H)weeping as he went; and it happened that as he encountered them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!” ⁷ But it happened that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men that were with him ^(I)slaughtered them and cast them into the cistern. ⁸ But ten men who were found among them said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death; for we have ^(J)stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the field.” So he refrained and did not put them to death along with their ^[c]companions.

⁹ Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had cast all the corpses of the men whom he had struck down ^[d]because of Gedaliah, it was the ^(K)one that King Asa had made on ^(L)account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.