Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. &#8220;Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?&#8221;