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.
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Gill's Exposition
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth to Mizpah to meet them,.... Hearing there was such a number of men upon the road to Jerusalem, in such a habit, and upon such a design, he thought it…
Barnes' Notes
Ishmael’s conduct seems to have been dictated by the malicious desire utterly to frustrate Gedaliah’s work. Weeping - By this artifice he lured them into Mizpah. The Septuagint: “as they were ...…
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…
Cambridge Bible
weeping all along so as to feign equal concern with them for the fate of the Temple, and thus put them off their guard.
Come to Gedaliah probably as governor, to whom therefore they should shew…
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