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The chapter begins with Jeremiah describing Zedekiah’s escape route (a similar description can be found in II Kings 25). The description opens with a calm meeting of Babylonian officials within the breached gate of Jerusalem. The war is over. The hunger and exhaustion of the Jerusalemites have done their work; the King of Babylonia has not had to sacrifice a single soldier for the capture of Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Book of Lamentations describes the starvation and death that bloodied the city streets. Jeremiah records how the king escapes from his palace together with a group of soldiers, “via the king’s garden, through the gate between the double walls.” The escape route must have been planned; the king must have known he had no other hope of survival. A rabbinic tradition mentions a tunnel through which Zedekiah attempted to escape:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He commenced his flight through a tunnel that led to Jericho through an aqueduct. He was exhausted, so his children went first. Nebuzaradan saw him, seized him and his ten sons, and sent them to Nebuchadnezzar (<\/span>Pesikta Rabbati<\/span><\/i> 26) .<\/span><\/p>\n

Some have attempted to identify the tunnel based on Jeremiah’s description of its location “between the double walls.” Hezekiah’s water tunnel too was dug out “between the double walls” (Is. 22:11). It ran from the Gihon Spring, just outside the city wall, to the Pool of Siloam (Shiloah), inside the wall \u2014 about half a kilometer in length. This tunnel was designed to secure the city’s water supply during Sennacherib’s siege, but it could just as easily have offered a way out of the city. Zedekiah keeps an eye on this route, and once the Babylonians occupy the city he takes his remaining troops, slips under the wall that the Babylonians had broken through, and turns toward the plains of Moab to seek refuge in Ammon. But they were pursued and ultimately captured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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