⁴ Now it happened on the ^[a]next day after the killing of Gedaliah, 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, their clothes torn, and ^[b]their bodies ^(F)gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the ^(G)house of the Lord. ⁶ Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah left Mizpah to meet them, ^(H)weeping as he went; and as he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!” ⁷ Yet it turned out that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him ^(I)slaughtered them and threw 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)supplies of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the field.” So he refrained and did not put them to death along with their companions.

⁹ Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck and killed ^[c]because of Gedaliah, it was the ^(K)one that King Asa had constructed on ^(L)account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.