The seed royal; and therefore moved with envy, to see so mean a person advanced into their place. See this history more fully described, Jer 41. Ten men, to wit, ten captains or officers, and under each of them many soldiers; otherwise the attempt was ridiculous.
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2 Kings 25:25
25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal,g came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.