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Jeremiah 52:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. "

Jeremiah 52:8

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6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,

8 but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

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2 Kings 25:5

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Jeremiah 52:1

"Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah."

Jeremiah 52:2

"He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done."

Jeremiah 52:3

"For through the LORD’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon."

Jeremiah 52:4

"In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about."

Jeremiah 52:5

"So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah."

Jeremiah 52:6

"In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land."

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