“Then the prophet Jeremiah
Spoke all these words
To King Zedekiah
Of Judah,
In Jerusalem.
Meanwhile the army
Of the king of Babylon
Was fighting
Against Jerusalem.
They were also fighting
Against all the cities
Of Judah
That were left.
Lachish,
With Azekah
Were the only fortified cities
Of Judah
That remained.”
As usual, Jeremiah had done what Yahweh wanted him to do. He repeated all the words that Yahweh had told him to say to King Zedekiah. At the same time, that the Babylonian army was attacking Jerusalem, they were also fighting against the only two other remaining fortified cities in Judah, Lachish, about 23 miles southwest of Jerusalem, and Azekah, about 11 miles north of Lachish. Everything else had already been conquered by the Babylonians except for these two cities and Jerusalem.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 