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Now it happened on the [a]next day after putting Gedaliah to death, when no one knew about it, that eighty men (A)came from (B)Shechem, from (C)Shiloh, and from (D)Samaria with (E)their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and [b]their bodies (F)gashed, having grain offerings and frankincense in their hands to bring to the (G)house of Yahweh. Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, (H)weeping as he went; and it happened that as he encountered them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 41:4 Or second
  2. Jeremiah 41:5 Lit having cut themselves