Person

Elishama

Gender:: Male
Verse mentions:: 2

Elishama was the grandfather of Ishmael, the royal official who assassinated Gedaliah, the Babylonian-appointed governor of Judah, after the fall of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 41:1).

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Nethaniah

Appears in 2

Reference	Verse
2 Kings 25:25	But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
Jeremiah 41:1	Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

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