Jeremiah 52:9 meaning and explanation
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
Jeremiah 52:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah 52 is an appendix narrating Jerusalem’s fall in 586 BC, and this verse reports King Zedekiah’s capture. While the Babylonians besieged Jerusalem, he and his soldiers fled by night, but Chaldean troops, that is, Babylonians, overtook him in the plains of Jericho and brought him to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, north of Israel.
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