14 So David said to Gad: “It is very distressing to me. Let us fall, please, into the hand of Jehovah,+ for many are his mercies;+ but into the hand of man* do not let me fall.”*+

5 And a military force of the Chal·deʹans went chasing after them,+ and they got to overtake Zed·e·kiʹah in the desert plains of Jerʹi·cho.+ Then they took him and brought him up to Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon at Ribʹlah+ in the land of Haʹmath+ that he might pronounce upon him judicial decisions.+