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- Chapter 52
- Verse 7
Jeremiah 52:7
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
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Gill's Exposition
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king,.... Not finding him in his palace, and being informed of his flight, and which way he took:
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: See…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Broken up ... the plain - Or, “broken into ... the Arabah” Deu 1:1.
This narrative begins no higher than the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, though there were two captivities before, one in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the other in the first of Jeconiah; but…
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