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

14 And they proceeded to say to him: “Do you not at all know that Baʹa·lis, the king of the sons of Amʹmon,+ himself has sent Ishʹma·el+ the son of Neth·a·niʹah+ to strike you to the soul?” But Ged·a·liʹah the son of A·hiʹkam did not believe them.+