15But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)It would have been well if Johanan, when he gave information to Gedaliah of Ishmael’s treasonable design, though he could not obtain leave to kill Ishmael and to prevent it that way, yet had staid with Gedaliah; for he, and his captains, and their forces, might have been a life-guard to Gedaliah and a terror to Ishmael, and so have prevented the mischief without the effusion of blood: but, it seem…
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