11. Johanan and all the army leaders with him heard of the crime that Ishmael had committed.
12. So they went after him with their men and overtook him near the large pool at Gibeon.
13. When Ishmael's prisoners saw Johanan and the leaders of the forces with him, they were glad,
14. and turned and ran to them.
15. But Ishmael and eight of his men got away from Johanan and escaped to the land of Ammon.
16. Then Johanan and the leaders of the forces with him took charge of the people whom Ishmael had taken away as prisoners from Mizpah after murdering Gedaliah — soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs.
17-18. They were afraid of the Babylonians because Ishmael had murdered Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylonia had made governor of the land. So they set out for Egypt, in order to get away from the Babylonians. On the way, they stopped at Chimham, near Bethlehem.