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2 Kings 25:1-11

Fall and Captivity of Judah

1 ^aAnd in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month ^bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. ^cAnd they built siegeworks all around it. 2 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month ^dthe famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by ^ethe king’s garden, and ^fthe Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the ^gArabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 6 Then they captured the king ^hand brought him up to the king of Babylon at ⁱRiblah, and they passed sentence on him. 7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^jand put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

8 ^kIn the fifth month, on ^lthe seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 ^mAnd he burned the house of the Lord ⁿand the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, ^obroke down the walls around Jerusalem. 11 ^pAnd the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.