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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 52:8

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, etc.] 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 “<243905>Jeremiah 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 Josephusf1097 says, and shifted for themselves.
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