Jeremiah 39:4-6

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⁴ When Zedekiah king of Judah and all his soldiers saw them, they ·ran away [fled]. They ·left [went out of] Jerusalem at night and went out ·from [^Lby way of] the king’s garden. They went through the gate that was between the two walls and then headed toward the ·Jordan Valley [^LArabah]. ⁵ But the ·Babylonian [^LChaldean] army ·chased [pursued] them and ·caught up with [overtook] Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They captured him and took him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was at the town of Riblah in the land of Hamath [^Cnorth of Israel, in Syria]. There Nebuchadnezzar passed ·his sentence [judgment] on Zedekiah. ⁶ At Riblah the king of Babylon ·killed [slaughtered] Zedekiah’s sons and all the ·important officers [nobles] of Judah ·as Zedekiah watched [^Lbefore his eyes].