Jeremiah 40:11–16

¹¹And also all the Judeans who were in Moab, and among the Ammonites,^q and in Edom, and who were in all the lands, when they heard that the king of Babylon had given a remnant to Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, in an official position over them, ¹²then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they were scattered. And they came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit that yielded in great abundance.^r

¹³And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah ¹⁴and said to him, “Are you at all aware^s that Baalis, the king of the Ammonites,^t has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to kill you?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them. ¹⁵Then Johanan the son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secrecy at Mizpah, saying,^u “Please let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and nobody^v will know. Why should he kill you, so that all of Judah who are gathered to you will be scattered, and the remnant of Judah will perish?” ¹⁶But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You must not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael.”