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2 Kings 25:5

“But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.”
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3By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

4Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.

6The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.

7And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

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