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.”
14. “I'm not trying to join them!” I answered. But Irijah wouldn't listen, and he took me to the king's officials.