“All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 52 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.