23 When all the army chiefs and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Ged·a·liʹah, they immediately came to Ged·a·liʹah at Mizʹpah. They were Ishʹma·el the son of Neth·a·niʹah, Jo·haʹnan the son of Ka·reʹah, Se·raiʹah the son of Tan·huʹmeth the Ne·tophʹa·thite, and Ja·az·a·niʹah the son of the Ma·acʹa·thite, together with their men.+

14 They said to him: “Do you not know that Baʹa·lis, the king of the Amʹmon·ites,+ has sent Ishʹma·el the son of Neth·a·niʹah to kill you?”*+ But Ged·a·liʹah the son of A·hiʹkam did not believe them.