Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
Seventh month - the second month after the burning of the city (Jeremiah 52:12-13).
And the princes - not the nominative. And the princes came; for the "princes" are not mentioned either in the And the princes - not the nominative. And the princes came; for the "princes" are not mentioned either in the next verse or in 2 Kings 25:25; but 'Ishmael, being of the seed royal, and OF the princes of the king' (Maurer). But the ten men were the "princes of the king;" thus Maurer's objection has no weight; so the English version.
There they did eat bread together. Ishmael murdered Gedaliah, by whom he was hospitably received, in violation of the sacred right of hospitality (Psalms 41:9, "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me").