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Jeremiah 52:8

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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 Gill on "Jer 39:5";and all his army was scattered from him; when they saw the enemy pursuing them, and near unto them, they left him, as Josephus says, and shifted for themselves.

Ibid. (Antiqu. l. 10. c. 8. sect. 2. Ed. Hudson.

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