John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7
And it was so , when they came into the midst of the city ,.... Where Gedaliah's house was, to which he invited them; and as they went in, he shut up the court, as Josephus F8 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 4. says, and slew them, as it here follows: that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit ; when he had slain them, the fourscore men he had enticed into the city, except ten of them, he cast their dead bodies into a pit near at hand: ... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-10
It is hard to say which is more astonishing, God's permitting or men's perpetrating such villanies as here we find committed. Such base, barbarous, bloody work is here done by men who by their birth should have been men of honour, by their religion just men, and this done upon those of their own nature, their own nation, their own religion, and now their brethren in affliction, when they were all brought under the power of the victorious Chaldeans, and smarting under the judgments of God, upon... read more