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   ocr: The events in this chapter took place in Jerusalem, in the midst OT a terrible two-year siege by the Bapylonians. The city's starving residents, barely clinging to survival, had resorted to cannibalism. City ofticials were frantically trying to improve morale and whip up cuuraye. Little wonder they objected to Jeremiah's dour advice: "We're going to lose anyway-mignt as well defect over the walls, or open the gates and let the Babylonians in." The following chapter (39) tells of Jeremiah's prophecies coming true. Babylon's army did breach the walls, and then captured and cortured the weak King ...