OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Jeremiah 39:8

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The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the people’s houses with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 39:5–11

5

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

6

Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

7

Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

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The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the people’s houses with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

9

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the rest of the people who remained.

10

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

11

Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,

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