Jeremiah 41:11-18 - The Captives Rescued By Johanan

¹¹ Kareah's son Jonathan and all the military leaders who were with him heard about all the terrible things that Nethaniah's son Ishmael had done. ¹² So they took all the men and went to fight Nethaniah's son Ishmael, and they found him at the large pool that is at Gibeon. ¹³ When all the people who were with Ishmael saw Kareah's son Jonathan and all the military leaders who were with him, they were glad. ¹⁴ All the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and went back to Kareah's son Jonathan. ¹⁵ But Nethaniah's son Ishmael and eight other men escaped from Jonathan and went to the Ammonites. ¹⁶ Kareah's son Jonathan and all the military leaders who were with him took all the rest of the people from Mizpah whom he had rescued from Nethaniah's son Ishmael after he had killed Ahikam's son Gedaliah, including the young men, the soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs whom he had rescued from Gibeon. ¹⁷ They traveled and then stopped at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem on their way to Egypt

¹⁸ because of the Chaldeans. They were afraid of the Chaldeans because Nethaniah's son Ishmael had killed Ahikam's son Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.