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2 Kings 25:5
“But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 25
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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