1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of
Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon and all his army came
against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the
fourth month, the ninth day of the month,
a breach was made in the city.

3 All the princes of the king of Babylon
came in, and sat in the middle gate:
Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim
the Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer the Rabmag,
with allthe rest ofthe princes ofthe king of
Babylon.

4 When Zedekiah the king of Judah and
allthe men of war saw them, then they fled
and went out of the city by night, by the
way of the king’s garden, through the gate
between the two walls; and he went out
toward the Arabah.

5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued
them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains
of Jericho. When they had taken him, they
brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king
of Baby lonto Riblah inthe land of Hamath;
and he pronounced judgment on him.

6 Then the king of Babylon killed
Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes.
The king of Babylon also killed all the
nobles of Judah.

7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes
and bound him in fetters, to carry him to
Babylon.

8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house
and the people’s houses with fire and
broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive into Babylon
the rest of the people who remained in
the city, the deserters also who fell away
to him, and the rest of the people who
remained.