The Babylonian army had retreated from Jerusalem because Pharaoh’s army was coming.
Even if you would defeat the entire Babylonian army so that they had only a few badly wounded men left in their tents, they would get up and burn down this city.’ ”
So Jeremiah wanted to leave Jerusalem and go to the territory of Benjamin to take possession of his property there among the people.
Pharaoh’s army had come from Egypt, and when the Babylonians who were blockading Jerusalem heard this news, they retreated from Jerusalem.