On the day after the murder of Gedaliah, before anyone knew of it,
It is hard to say which is more astonishing, God's permitting or men's perpetrating such villanies as here we find committed. Such base, barbarous, bloody work is here done by men who by their birth should have been men of honour, by their religion just men, and this done upon those of their own nature, their own nation, their own religion, and now their brethren...
Commenting on Jeremiah 41:1-10
And it came to pass, the second day after he had slain Gedaliah,.... That is, the day following, for it was in the night, as Josephus relates, as before observed, the murder was committed: and no man knew it; not any out of the city, or in remote parts; for those that were in the city must be sensible of it; but as yet the...
no man knew it--that is, outside Mizpah. Before tidings of the murder had gone abroad.