Jeremiah 41:3
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.
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Gill's Exposition
Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah,.... Not only those that were at table, but that were in the city also. Josephus (f) says, that having slain those that…
It is hard to say which is more astonishing, God's permitting or men's perpetrating such villanies as here we find committed. Such base, barbarous, bloody work is here done by men who by their birth…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
The Jews on their return from the exile used to keep the third day of the seventh month (Tisri) as a fast in memory of Ishmael's deed (Zec 7:5; Zec 8:19).
even the men of war Gedaliah's body-guard.…
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