“But the army
Of the Chaldeans
Pursued the king.
They overtook
King Zedekiah
In the plains
Of Jericho.
All his army
Was scattered.
They had deserted him.
Then they captured
The king.
They brought him up
To the king of Babylon,
At Riblah,
In the land of Hamath.
He passed sentence on him.”
This is pretty much the same as in 2 Kings, chapter 25. The Chaldeans caught them in the plains of Jericho, about 5 miles from Jerusalem. In 2 Kings, chapter 25, the Judean troops scattered and deserted the king as here, but in the earlier Jeremiah story, there was no mention of that. They then brought the king to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who was at Riblah in Hamath, north of Jerusalem, almost on the Syrian border. The Babylonian king then passed sentence on him.