Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
the seventh month. This was the month Tisri, answering to the new moon of September, the seventh of the sacred, but the first of the civil year; on the third day of which the Jews keep a fast, in commemoration of the death of Gedaliah, to which the prophet Zechariah refers.
Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because …
Jeremiah 39:2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth …
Jeremiah 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine …
2 Kings 25:3,8,25 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in …
Zechariah 7:5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, …
Zechariah 8:19 Thus said the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the …
Ishmael.
Jeremiah 40:6,8 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelled …
Elishama.
Jeremiah 36:12,20 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: …
of the.
Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
James 4:1-3 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …
seed.
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
2 Chronicles 22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
Ezekiel 17:13 And has taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and …
they did.
Jeremiah 40:14-16 And said to him, Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the …
2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the …
2 Samuel 20:9,10 And Joab said to Amasa, Are you in health, my brother? And Joab took …
Psalm 41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of …
Psalm 109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Proverbs 26:23-26 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross…
Daniel 11:26,27 Yes, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, …
Luke 22:47,48 And while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called …
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture …
Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.
And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
came.
2 Kings 10:13,14 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who …
Shechem.
Genesis 33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land …
Genesis 34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, …
Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up …
Judges 9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's …
1 Kings 12:1,25 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem …
Shiloh.
Jeremiah 7:12,14 But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name …
Joshua 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together …
Samaria.
1 Kings 16:24,29 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, …
their beards. All these were signs of deep mourning; which, though forbidden on funeral occasions, were customary, and perhaps counted allowable, on seasons of public calamity, and this mourning was probably on account of the destruction of Jerusalem.
Leviticus 19:27,28 You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you …
Deuteronomy 14:1 You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, …
2 Samuel 10:4 Why Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their …
Isaiah 15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: …
to the.
1 Samuel 1:7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the …
2 Kings 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all …
Psalm 102:14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
slew.
1 Kings 15:28,29 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, …
1 Kings 16:10-12 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and …
2 Kings 11:1,2 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
2 Kings 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against …
Psalm 55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: …
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: …
Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in the middle thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, …
Ezekiel 33:24-26 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel …
Romans 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
Slay.
Job 2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that …
Psalm 49:6-8 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude …
Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor hears not rebuke.
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall …
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and …
Mark 8:36,37 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, …
Philippians 3:7-9 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ…
treasures. These treasures hid in the field were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the mattamores in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the holy land.
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
the pit. This was probably a large reservoir for receiving rain water, which Asa had caused to be made in the midst of the city, in case of a siege.
because of Gedaliah. or, near Gedaliah. Heb. by the hand or the side of Gedaliah. was it.
Joshua 10:16-18 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah…
Judges 6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel…
1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people …
1 Samuel 14:11,22 And both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: …
1 Samuel 24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul …
2 Samuel 17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it …
Hebrews 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and …
for fear.
1 Kings 15:17-22 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah…
2 Chronicles 16:1-10 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of …
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
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Jeremiah 40:11,12 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, …
even.
Jeremiah 22:30 Thus said the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall …
Jeremiah 39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before …
Jeremiah 43:5-7 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, …
Jeremiah 44:12-14 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to …
whom.
Jeremiah 40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, …
to the.
Jeremiah 40:14 And said to him, Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the …
Nehemiah 2:10,19 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, …
Nehemiah 4:7,8 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, …
Nehemiah 6:17,18 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, …
Nehemiah 13:4-8 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the …
But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
Johanan.
Jeremiah 41:2,3,7 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him…
Jeremiah 40:7,8,13-16 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, …
Jeremiah 42:1,3 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, …
Jeremiah 43:2-5 Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, …
Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.
that when. They appear to have been weary of the tyranny of Ishmael, and glad of an opportunity to abandon him.
So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
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But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
Chimham.
2 Samuel 19:37,38 Let your servant, I pray you, turn back again, that I may die in …
to go. As Johanan and the other princes had taken a decided part against Ishmael, they had no sufficient reason to fear that the Chaldeans would revenge on them the murder of Gedaliah; but perhaps Johanan was unwilling to be superseded in the command which he had rightly assumed, and so used his influence to induce the whole company to take refuge in Egypt; and their old attachment to the Egyptians rendered them more ready to concur in this ruinous measure.
Jeremiah 42:14,19 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall …
Jeremiah 43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice …
Isaiah 30:2,3 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; …
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
for they.
Jeremiah 42:11,16 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; be …
Jeremiah 43:2,3 Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, …
2 Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of …
Isaiah 30:16,17 But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you …
Isaiah 51:12,13 I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should …
Isaiah 57:11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and …
Luke 12:4,5 And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the …
because.
Jeremiah 41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him…
whom.
Jeremiah 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah …
