Jeremiah 41
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Ishmael killed Gedaliah and eighty men. Johanan went to fight Ishmael but he escaped. Johanan led the survivors on the way to Egypt.
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They (Ismael and Gedaliah) ate a meal together, regarded as a covenant of brotherhood, thus making Ishmael’s act even more reprehensible.
V1 While they were eating together there, 2 Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah...
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