in the seventh month three months after the capture and two after the burning of the city.

andone of the chief officers of the king We should probably, with LXX, omit this clause. It is absent also from 2 Kings 25:25.

they did eat bread together i.e. Gedaliah received Ishmael as a guest. Hence the crime assumed a still more atrocious character.

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