But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
Ver. 15. But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped.] But with what honour, with what conscience could this Judas live among the Ammonites? Surely this defeat could not but be more shame to him before the King of Ammon, and more vexation to his proud heart, than death itself. The like befell Stukely, the English traitor, in Spain.