Jeremiah 41:14

So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about,.... Or turned about, and wheeled off from Ishmael, and deserted him at once; not at all regarding his authority, nor…

It would have been well if Johanan, when he gave information to Gedaliah of Ishmael's treasonable design, though he could not obtain leave to kill Ishmael and to prevent it that way, yet had staid…

cast about an archaism, meaning turned round. Cp. John Gower (c. 1325 1408), "Then castI all the world about," Confessio Amantis; and Sir Philip Sidney (1554 1586), "Musidorus could doe no more but…