John Trapp on Jeremiah 40:7

Ver. 7. Now when all the Captains of the forces that were in the fields] The diſperſed Jews with their Captains and Centurions, ſuch as had lain lurking during the ſeige, or had fled when Zedekias did and eſcaped.

Heard that the King of Babylon had made Gedaliah] Whom they knew to be a pious and prudent man: and would be a father unto them inſtead of a King. Nebuchadnezzar might have ſet a Babylonian Governour, who would have ruled them with rigour; But God, in mercy to his poor people, moved him to make choiſe of this man, famous for his mildneſſe and integrity: to whom therefore they reſort, but not all for the ſame good end, as the ſequel ſhewed: for Iſhmael was a very Judas.