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Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the army heads with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah (after he had killed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam), mighty men ofwar, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon.

And they departed and lived in the inn of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter Egypt,

because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had struck Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed in the land.