2 Kings 25:23

When all the captains of the armies Who escaped when Zedekiah was taken; heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor One of themselves, and that things were put into a good posture: there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah A place in the land of Benjamin, famous in Samuel's time; Ishmael, Johanan, &c., they and their men To put themselves under his protection. Gedaliah, though he had not the pomp and power of a sovereign prince, yet might have been a greater blessing to them than many of their kings had been, especially having such a privy counsellor as Jeremiah, who was now with them, and interested himself in their affairs, Jeremiah 40:5.