Verse 8
Jeremiah 52:8
Bible in Basic English
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And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּרְדְּפ֤וּ חֵיל כַּשְׂדִּים֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ וַ/יַּשִּׂ֥יגוּ אֶת צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ בְּ/עַֽרְבֹ֣ת יְרֵח֑וֹ וְ/כָל חֵיל֔/וֹ נָפֹ֖צוּ מֵ/עָלָֽי/ו
English Translation
And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
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Chapter 52 Context
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: an...
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And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
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And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them a...
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And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Baby...
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So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, s...
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Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the t...
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And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and a...
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Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of H...
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And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all t...
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And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Bab...
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Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar...
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And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every gr...
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And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
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Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who we...
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But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the land go on living there, to ta...
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And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass...
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And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessel...
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And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the...
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The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten...
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And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, a...
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And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and app...
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There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundre...
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And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, a...
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And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's n...
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These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prison...
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These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and...
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And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred...
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In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as...
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And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twel...
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And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were wit...
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And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest o...
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And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the re...
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