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but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
6
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
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And 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.
8
On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
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He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.