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Then a section of the city wall was broken down. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,[a] the soldiers waited for nightfall and escaped[b] through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden. Then they headed toward the Jordan Valley.[c]

But the Babylonian[d] troops chased the king and overtook him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered. They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:4a Or the Chaldeans; also in 25:13, 25, 26.
  2. 25:4b As in Greek version (see also Jer 39:4; 52:7); Hebrew lacks escaped.
  3. 25:4c Hebrew the Arabah.
  4. 25:5 Or Chaldean; also in 25:10, 24.

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