4And on the day after they had assassinated Gedaliah, before anyone knew of it, 5Eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, to bring offerings and incense to the Temple of the LORD. 6And Ishmael went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went along; and when he met them, he said, “Come, see what has happened to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam.” 7And when they came into the center of the city, Ishmael, and the men who were with him, killed them, and threw their bodies into a pit. 8But ten of those eighty men said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have caches of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the field.” So Ishmael relented, and did not kill them with their seventy other companions. 9Now the pit in which Ishmael had thrown all the dead bodies of the men he had murdered was the large pit which Asa, king of Judah, had dug as part of his defense against Baasha, king of Israel; and Ishmael filled it with the bodies of those he killed. 10Then Ishmael made captives of all the rest of the people that were in Mizpah, including the king's daughters, whom Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, had left under the care of Gedaliah; and Ishmael took these captives, and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.

11But when Johanan, son of Kareah, and the commanders of all the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael had done, 12They took all their men, and went to fight with Ishmael, and caught up with him by the great pool in Gibeon. 13Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces that with him, they were glad. 14So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and went over to Johanan, son of Kareah. 15But Ishmael and his eight men escaped from Johanan, and fled to the Ammonites.

16Then Johanan, and all the military commanders that were with him, took all the rest of the people from Mizpah - men of war, women, children, and court officials - that he had rescued from Ishmael, and brought them back from Gibeon; 17And they went on, stopping in the settlement of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, on their way to Egypt, 18To escape the Chaldeans (Babylonians); for they were afraid of what they might do when they learned that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land.