Yet it turned out that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him (A)slaughtered them and threw them into the cistern.

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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.(A)

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Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck and killed [a]because of Gedaliah, it was the (A)one that King Asa had constructed on (B)account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 41:9 Lit by the hand of

Now the cistern where he threw all the bodies of the men he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one King Asa(A) had made as part of his defense(B) against Baasha(C) king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.

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