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So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
- Jeremiah 35:11
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”
- Jeremiah 37:10
and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
- Jeremiah 40:14
Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
- Jeremiah 40:15
But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and went to the Ammonites.
- Jeremiah 41:15
to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
- Jeremiah 41:18
‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
- Jeremiah 48:6
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Lamentations 1:19
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
- Lamentations 2:22
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
- Lamentations 3:52
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Lamentations 3:53
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
- Lamentations 3:54