Verse 7
Jeremiah 52:7
New Living Translation
7
Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians, they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תִּבָּקַ֣ע הָ/עִ֗יר וְ/כָל אַנְשֵׁ֣י הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֡ה יִבְרְחוּ֩ וַ/יֵּצְא֨וּ מֵ/הָ/עִ֜יר לַ֗יְלָה דֶּ֜רֶךְ שַׁ֤עַר בֵּין הַ/חֹמֹתַ֨יִם֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל גַּ֣ן הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ וְ/כַשְׂדִּ֥ים עַל הָ/עִ֖יר סָבִ֑יב וַ/יֵּלְכ֖וּ דֶּ֥רֶךְ הָ/עֲרָבָֽה
English Translation
And the city was breached, and all the men of war fled, and they went out of the city at night by the way of the gate between the two walls which is by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, and they went by the way of the Arabah.
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Chapter 52 Context
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His...
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But Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.
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These things happened because of the LORD’s anger against the people of Jerusalem and Judah, until h...
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So on January 15, during the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his...
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Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.
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By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, the famine in the city had become very severe,...
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Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surro...
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But the Babylonian troops chased King Zedekiah and overtook him on the plains of Jericho, for his me...
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They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath. There th...
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The king of Babylon made Zedekiah watch as he slaughtered his sons. He also slaughtered all the offi...
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Then he gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in bronze chains, and the king of Babylon led him a...
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On August 17 of that year, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuzaradan...
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He burned down the Temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroy...
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Then he supervised the entire Babylonian army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem on every side...
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15
Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took as exiles some of the poorest of the people, the re...
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But Nebuzaradan allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind to care for the vineyards and fiel...
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The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars in front of the LORD’s Temple, the bronze water carts, a...
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They also took all the ash buckets, shovels, lamp snuffers, basins, dishes, and all the other bronze...
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The captain of the guard also took the small bowls, incense burners, basins, pots, lampstands, ladle...
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The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea with the twelve bronze oxen beneath it, and t...
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Each of the pillars was 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference. They were hollow, with walls 3 in...
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The bronze capital on top of each pillar was 7 1⁄2 feet high and was decorated with a network of bro...
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There were 96 pomegranates on the sides, and a total of 100 pomegranates on the network around the t...
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Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took with him as prisoners Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah...
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And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the...
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Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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And there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon had them all put to death. So the pe...
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The number of captives taken to Babylon in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign was 3,023.
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Then in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year he took 832 more.
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In Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year he sent Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who took 745 mo...
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In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the B...
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He supplied Jehoiachin with new clothes to replace his prison garb and allowed him to dine in the ki...
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So the Babylonian king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived. This continued until t...
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