Jeremiah 39:4–13

⁴When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward ^rthe Arabah. ⁵But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in ^sthe plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at ^tRiblah, in the land of Hamath; ^uand he passed sentence on him. ⁶The king of Babylon ^vslaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at ^tRiblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon ^vslaughtered all the nobles of Judah. ^7wHe put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon. ^8xThe Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, ^yand broke down the walls of Jerusalem. ⁹Then ^zNebuzaradan, the ^acaptain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, ^bthose who had deserted to him, and the people who remained. ¹⁰Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, ^cleft in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

The Lord Delivers Jeremiah

¹¹Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying, ^12d“Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he tells you.” ¹³So ^eNebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, ^eand all the chief officers of the king of Babylon