Jeremiah 41:7 meaning and explanation
And when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.
Jeremiah 41:7, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah 41:7 continues the grim story of Ishmael, a member of the royal family, who has just murdered Gedaliah, the governor Babylon appointed over the surviving people of Judah. The eighty men from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria were pilgrims bringing grain offerings and frankincense to the ruined temple, mourning with shaved beards and torn clothes.
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