“Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.”
The pit is the one made by King Asa for fortification. The reuse of a defensive structure for mass murder suggests how violence transforms protective mechanisms.
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