2 Kings 25:1–7

¹And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built turrets against it round about. ²And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ³On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. ⁴And the city was broken into; and all the men of war fled by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which leads to the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain. ⁵And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. ⁶And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him, ⁷and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.