OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 39:5

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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.

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Verse 5. In the land, or environs of Emesa, in Syria. Theod.—Judgment. Reproaching him with perfidy and ingratitude. Worthington.—He slew the nobles, as his accomplices.

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