However, the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains[a] of Jericho, arrested him, and brought him to Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon’s king, at Riblah in the land of Hamath. The king passed sentence on him there.

At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all Judah’s nobles. Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 39:5 Lit Arabah

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