Now when all the sharay (captains) of the chayalayam (forces) who were in the shadah (fields), even they and their chayalayam (men), shamai (hearken / hear) that the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon) had made Gadalayah (Gedaliah) the ban (son) of Achayaqam (Ahikam) governor in the aratz (Earth/land), and paqad (visit) committed to him chayalayam (men), and nashayam (women), and tap (children), and of the poorest of the aratz (Earth/land), of those who were not galah (carried) away captive to Babal (Babylon);