1. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had removed Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim from being the king of Judah and had made Josiah's son Zedekiah king instead.
2. But Zedekiah, his officials, and everyone else in Judah ignored everything the Lord had told me.
8. Then the Babylonians will return and attack Jerusalem, and this time they will capture the city and set it on fire.
9. Don't fool yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians will leave as they did before.
10. Even if you could defeat their entire army, their wounded survivors would still be able to leave their tents and set Jerusalem on fire.
11. The Babylonian army had left because the Egyptian army was on its way to help us.
12. So I decided to leave Jerusalem and go to the territory of the Benjamin tribe to claim my share of my family's land.
13. I was leaving Jerusalem through Benjamin Gate, when I was stopped by Irijah, the officer in charge of the soldiers at the gate. He said, “Jeremiah, you're under arrest for trying to join the Babylonians.”