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An overturned cup and empty place reveal the loss as Ishmael leaves.
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Jeremiah 41:2-4

The empty place

Betrayal at Mizpah · Jeremiah 41

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2Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah rose up with the ten men who were with him, and they struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him—the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

3And Ishmael struck down all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there—the men of war.

4And it happened on the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, when no man yet knew it,

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