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Read Full Chapter (2 Kings 25) 2 Kings 25:5 KJV
"And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him."
2 Kings 25:5 in Context (Verses 2–8 KJV)
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And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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¶ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
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And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
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So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.*
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And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.*
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¶ And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:*