2 Kings 25:3–10

³By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food. ^d4Then the city was broken into, ^eand all the warriors fled ^fby night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, ^geven though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah, ^h5the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army was scattered from him. ⁱ⁶The Chaldeans seized the king ^jand brought him up to the king of Babylon ^kat Riblah, ^land they passed sentence on him. ⁷They slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze chains, and took him to Babylon. ^m

Jerusalem Destroyed

⁸On ⁿthe seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. ^o9He burned the Lord’s temple, ^pthe king’s palace, ^qand all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down ^rall the great houses. ¹⁰The whole Chaldean army with the commander of the guards tore down the walls ^ssurrounding Jerusalem.