Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Ishmael' s conduct seems to have been dictated by the malicious desire utterly to frustrate Gedaliah' s work.
Weeping - By this artifice he lured them into Mizpah. The Septuagint: "as they were ... weeping."
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