Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 41:2

2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him , whom the king of Babylon had made governour over the land .

These ten men with their retinue fall upon Gedaliah and barbarously murder him.

Their quarrel against him was, that he was Deputy-Governour to the King of Babylon, so desperately hardned were these Jews, they would not yet see that God had given their Countrey into the hand of the King of Babylon, who having now a right of conquest over them, had authority to set whom he pleased as his Vice Roy or Deputy Governour over them to whom they ought to have yielded all sujection and obedience.