Gedaliah Assassinated by Ishmael

41 In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. They ate a meal together there in Mizpah,

⁹ Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men he had struck down was a large one^[a] that King Asa had made in the encounter with King Baasha of Israel.^(A) Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.