Jeremiah 40:6, 9, 14

I decided to stay with my people in the land of Judah, so I went to live near Gedaliah in Mizpah.

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, grandson of Shaphan, reassured them and gave them his word that they need not be afraid to serve the Babylonians. “Stay in the land,” he said. “Serve the king of Babylon, and everything will be fine.

They said to him, “We came to warn you that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to assassinate you.” But Gedaliah would not believe them.