⁷ “Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster^(A) on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women,^(B) the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?^(C)

¹⁵ Then Johanan^(A) son of Kareah said privately to Gedaliah in Mizpah, “Let me go and kill^(B) Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life and cause all the Jews who are gathered around you to be scattered^(C) and the remnant^(D) of Judah to perish?”