Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                 GEDALIAH

2KI 25:22  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, 
the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.

2KI 25:23  When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of 
Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at 
Mizpah--Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of 
Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, and their 
men.

2KI 25:24  Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. "Do not be 
afraid of the Babylonian officials," he said. "Settle down in the land and 
serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you."

2KI 25:25  In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son 
of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated 
Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at 
Mizpah.

2KI 25:26  At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together 
with the army officers, fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians.

JER 39:14  sent and had Jeremiah taken out of the courtyard of the guard. 
They turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take 
him back to his home. So he remained among his own people.

JER 40:5  However, before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, "Go 
back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of 
Babylon has appointed over the towns of Judah, and live with him among the 
people, or go anywhere else you please." Then the commander gave him 
provisions and a present and let him go.

JER 40:6  So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed 
with him among the people who were left behind in the land.

JER 40:13  Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers still in the 
open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

JER 40:14  and said to him, "Don't you know that Baalis king of the 
Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?" But 
Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

JER 40:15  Then Johanan son of Kareah said privately to Gedaliah in Mizpah, 
"Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why 
should he take your life and cause all the Jews who are gathered around you 
to be scattered and the remnant of Judah to perish?"

JER 40:16  But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, "Don't 
do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is not true."

JER 41:1  In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of 
Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king's officers, 
came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were 
eating together there,

JER 41:2  Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up 
and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, 
killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the 
land.

JER 41:3  Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at 
Mizpah, as well as the Babylonian soldiers who were there.

JER 41:4  The day after Gedaliah's assassination, before anyone knew about 
it,

JER 41:5  eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes 
and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain 
offerings and incense with them to the house of the LORD.

JER 41:6  Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, 
weeping as he went. When he met them, he said, "Come to Gedaliah son of 
Ahikam."

JER 41:7  When they went into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the 
men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

JER 41:8  But ten of them said to Ishmael, "Don't kill us! We have wheat 
and barley, oil and honey, hidden in a field." So he let them alone and did 
not kill them with the others.

JER 41:9  Now the cistern where he threw all the bodies of the men he had 
killed along with Gedaliah was the one King Asa had made as part of his 
defense against Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it 
with the dead.

JER 41:10  Ishmael made captives of all the rest of the people who were in 
Mizpah--the king's daughters along with all the others who were left there, 
over whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had appointed 
Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set 
out to cross over to the Ammonites.

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