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The wall of[a] the city was broken through, and all the soldiers fled, leaving the city at night through the gate between the two walls next to the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.[b]

The Chaldean army went after the king, overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his troops were scattered from him. They captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where the king of Babylon[c] passed judgment on him.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:7 The Heb. lacks The wall of
  2. Jeremiah 52:7 I.e. the Jordan Valley
  3. Jeremiah 52:9 Lit. he