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The Fall of Jerusalem Recounted
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|Jeremias 52:1| a Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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|Jeremias 52:2| And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, b according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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|Jeremias 52:3| For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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|Jeremias 52:4| c And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
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|Jeremias 52:5| So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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|Jeremias 52:6| On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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|Jeremias 52:7| Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
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|Jeremias 52:8| 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.
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|Jeremias 52:9| Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.
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|Jeremias 52:10| The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at d Riblah.
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