Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Ver. 10. Then Ishmael carried away captive.]
“ Auri sacra fames quid non mortalia cogit Pectora? ”
Even the king's daughters.] His own kinswomen, whom the Babylonian had spared. It may be he meant to marry one of them, as our Richard III would have done his niece Elizabeth, and so to have reigned in her right.
And all the people that remained in Mizpah.] Who found less favour from a false brother than they had done from a professed enemy; so hath the Church ever done from heretics than from heathens.