Jeremiah 39:1–9

^aIn the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. ²And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. ³And ^ball the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and ^csat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, ^dRab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, ^eRab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. ⁴And it came to pass, that ^fwhen Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain. ⁵But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to ^gRiblah in the land of Hamath, where ^hhe gave judgment upon him. ⁶Then the king of Babylon slew ⁱthe sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: ^kalso the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. ⁷Moreover he ^lput out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon.

⁸And ^mthe Chaldeans burnt the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. ⁹Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and ⁿthose that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.