Today is the 22nd day of October.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian.

It is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather again around the global campfire and take the next step forward together, which leads us right exactly to where we left off yesterday.

That's in the book of Jeremiah now.

We concluded Paul's first letter to Timothy yesterday so when we get to the new

testament we'll be going into another letter known as second Timothy.

I'm gonna talk about that when we get there. But first, Jeremiah,uchadnezzar and the Babylonian army began their attack on Jerusalem.

They kept the city surrounded for a year and a half.

Then on the ninth day of the fourth month of the 11th year that Zetahaya was king.

They broke through the city walls.

After Jerusalem was captured, Nebuchadnezzar's highest officials, including Nebo Sarsikim, a Nurgal-Chirazer from Shimakar, took their places at Middlegate to show they were in control of the city.

When King Zetakaya and his troops saw that Jerusalem had been captured, they tried to escape

from the city that same night. They went to the king's garden where they slipped

through the gate between the two city walls and headed toward the Jordan River

Valley. But the Babylonian troops caught up with them near Jericho.

They arrested Zadakaya and took him to the town of Ribla in the land of Hamoth, where Nebuchadnezzar put him on trial,

then found him guilty, and gave orders for him to be punished.

Zetakaya's sons were killed there in front of him, and so were the leaders of Judah's ruling families. Then his eyes

were poked out and he was put in chains so he could be dragged off to Babylonia.

Meanwhile so he could be dragged off to Babylonia.

Meanwhile, the Babylonian army had burned the houses in Jerusalem, including the royal palace,

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