2 Kings 25:23
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
The verse stands in the close of Kings and of the history of the kingdom of Judah, which records the wicked and weak reigns of the kings of Judah, with the one bright exception of the reformation conducted under the good king Josiah supported by his godly priests and counselors. It belongs to the account of Jerusalem's capture and the exile of many of God's people, after the laying waste of Jerusalem, the despoiling of the temple, and the slaying of the captives at Riblah. It belongs to the fuller account of Zedekiah's downfall, for Zedekiah was the last king of the chosen people, Nebuchadnezzar put out his eyes and took him to Babylon where he died in captivity, and after that Judah never again had an independent kingdom but only such provincial government as was allowed while subservient to the great kingdoms that ruled the world.
The verse records that after Gedaliah was appointed governor by the king of Babylon over the few people left in the land of Judah, the captains of the armies with their men came to him at Mizpah, identifying the small company left in the land under Gedaliah. This coming to Mizpah took place in the aftermath of Jerusalem's fall and before Gedaliah's murder. About two months later Ishmael and ten men murdered Gedaliah through treachery.
After the murder the remnant, including the people and the captains, went to Egypt out of fear of the Chaldeans, contrary to the counsel of Jeremiah. At that same close of the history Jehoiachin received kind treatment from the king of Babylon.