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.
The king's daughters (Jeremiah 43:6) Zedekiah's Ishmael must have gotten additional followers (whom the hope The king's daughters - (Jeremiah 43:6) Zedekiah's. Ishmael must have gotten additional followers (whom the hope of gain attracted), besides these who originally set out with him (Jeremiah 41:1), so as to have been able to carry off all the residue of the people. He probably meant to sell them as slaves to the Ammonites (Jeremiah 40:14, note).