John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 41:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, etc.] Where Gedaliah’s house was, to which he invited them; and as they went in, he shut up the court, as Josephusf753 says, and slew them, as it here follows: that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit; when he had slain them, the fourscore men he had enticed into the city, except ten of them, he cast their dead bodies into a pit near at hand: he, and the men that [were] with him; Ishmael and the ten princes, with what servants they brought with them; these were all concerned in the death of these men.

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