Jeremiah 39:5

But the force of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the waste plains of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him up unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath,—and pronounced upon him sentences of judgment.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

In Context

4And it came to pass as soon as Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth by night out of the city, by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,—and he went forth by way of the waste plain.

6And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah before his eyes,—and all the nobles of Judah, did the king of Babylon slay;

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Cross References

Joshua 4:13about forty thousand, equipped for the war, passed over before Yahweh, to battle, into the waste plains of Jericho.

Joshua 13:5and the land of the Gebalites, and all the Lebanon, to the rising of the sun, from Baal-gad, under Mount Hermon,—as far as the entering in of Hamath:

2 Samuel 8:9And, when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer,

2 Kings 23:33And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem,—and he laid a fine upon the land, a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

2 Chronicles 33:11So Yahweh brought in upon them, the captains of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks,—and bound him captive with a pair of bronze fetters, and took him away to Babylon.

Jeremiah 4:12A wind too strong for these, cometh in for me. Now, will, I also, pronounce sentences upon them:

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 39:2-11

Jerusalem Taken. ( b. c. 588.) 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king… Read the whole commentary →

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