the seventh month: This was the month Tisri: answering to the new moon of September, the seventh of the sacred, but the first of the civil year; on the third day of which the Jews keep a fast, in commemoration of the death of Gedaliah, to which the prophet Zechariah refers, Zechariah 8:19; Jeremiah 39:2, Jeremiah 52:6. 2 Kings 25:3, 2 Kings 25:8, 2 Kings 25:25. Zechariah 7:5; Zechariah 8:19.
Ishmael: Jeremiah 40:6, Jeremiah 40:8
Elishama: Jeremiah 36:12, Jeremiah 36:20
of the: Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 27:4; James 4:1-3