2 Kings 25:1-7
Fall and Captivity of Judah
1 a And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month b Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. c And 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 d the 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 e the king’s garden, and f the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the g Arabah. 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 h and brought him up to the king of Babylon at i Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. 7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, j and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.
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