Jeremiah 41:14
So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah. So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
Jeremiah 41:14 describes all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turning about and returning, escaping to go to Johanan the son of Kareah. It belongs to the record in Jeremiah 41:1-18 of the king of Ammon dispersing the Jews who had gathered in Judah after Babylon carried the nation into captivity, with verse 14 marking the captives' escape and return to join Johanan. The chapter recounts the assassination of Gedaliah at Mizpah and the dispersal of the remnant of Jews left after the Babylonian conquest, of which verse 14 is a part.
Gedaliah was the Jewish viceroy left by Nebuchadnezzar after the destruction of Jerusalem, whose murder at Mizpah Jeremiah 41 tells. The dispersal of the Jews who had gathered in Judah after Babylon carried the nation into captivity was carried out by the king of Ammon. The verse falls within the account of the Jews left after Zedekiah's captivity and after Jerusalem's fall, during the reign of Zedekiah, and their later flight into Egypt.
In the suggested chronological order of Jeremiah, chapter 41 follows chapter 40 and precedes chapters 42-44. The seventh-month fast kept on Tisri 3 as the Fast of Gedaliah commemorated Gedaliah's murder and these events. It stands as one of four fasts commemorating events connected with the fall of Jerusalem. Like the other fasts except Ab 9, this fast begins at daybreak.