Jeremiah 41:7-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ When they got to the middle of the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him began to kill them, throwing their bodies into a cistern. ⁸ But ten of them said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us! We have food hidden in the countryside: wheat, barley, oil, and honey!”

So he stopped and did not murder them along with the others. ⁹ Now the cistern into which Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of the murdered men was a large one,^[a] which had been built by King Asa to defend against Ba’asha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the murdered men.