9. The cistern where Ishmael dumped the bodies of the men he murdered was the large one dug by King Asa when he fortified Mizpah to protect himself against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with corpses.
10. Then Ishmael made captives of the king’s daughters and the other people who had been left under Gedaliah’s care in Mizpah by Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard. Taking them with him, he started back toward the land of Ammon.
11. But when Johanan son of Kareah and the other guerrilla leaders heard about Ishmael’s crimes,
12. they took all their men and set out to stop him. They caught up with him at the large pool near Gibeon.