And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.Ī fuller account is in Jeremiah chapter 41, where the murder of a group of envoys and the kidnapping of the gubernatorial staff and family are also related: The events are recounted briefly in the Hebrew Bible in 2 Kings 25:25–26:īut 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 Chaldeans that were with him at Mitzpah. The remaining Jews feared the vengeance of the Babylonian king (in view of the fact that the king's chosen ruler, Gedaliah, had been killed by a Jew) and fled to Egypt. Yishmael murdered Gedaliah, together with most of the Jews who had joined him and many Babylonians whom the Babylonian king had left with Gedaliah. Gedaliah had been warned of his guest's murderous intent, but refused to believe his informants, believing their report was mere slander. In the seventh month ( Tishrei) of 582/1 BCE (some four to five years following the destruction of the Temple, although the exact year is unclear and subject to dispute others claim the assassination took place in the same year as the destruction), a group of Jews led by Yishmael came to Gedaliah in the town of Mitzpa and were received cordially. However, Baalis, king of Ammon, was hostile and envious of the Judean remnant and sent a Judean, Yishmael Ben Netaniah, who was descended from the royal family of Judea, to assassinate Gedaliah. When Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, conquered Jerusalem, he killed or exiled most of its inhabitants and appointed Gedaliah as governor of the now-Babylonian province of Yehud. His death ended Jewish autonomy following the destruction of the First Temple and the fall of King Zedekiah. ə, ɡ ə ˈ d ɑː l i ə/ Hebrew: צוֹם גְּדַלְיָה Tzom Gedalya), also transliterated from the Hebrew language as Gedaliah or Gedalya(h), is a minor Jewish fast day from dawn until dusk to lament the assassination of Gedaliah, the righteous governor of what was the Kingdom of Judah.
The Fast of Gedalia ( / ˌ ɡ ɛ d ə ˈ l aɪ. A day of abstinence from food and/or drink in observance of historical biblical figure Fast of Gedaliahģrd day of Tishrei at dawn (if Shabbat, then 4th day of Tishrei at dawn)
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