Gedaliah Assassinated^(A)

⁷ When all the army officers and their men who were still in the open country heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor^(B) over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest^(C) in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon,

¹² they all came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, from all the countries where they had been scattered.^(A) And they harvested an abundance of wine and summer fruit.