2 Kings 24:17–25:7

¹⁷And ^fthe king of Babylon made Mattaniah ^ghis father’s brother king in his stead, and ^hchanged his name to Zedekiah.

¹⁸ⁱZedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was ^kHamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^19*lAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. ²⁰For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, ^mthat Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

25^*And it came to pass ^ain the ninth year of his reign, in the ^btenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built ^cforts against it round about. ^2*And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ³And on the ninth day of the ^dfourth month ^ethe famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. ⁴And ^ethe city was broken up, and ^fall the men of war ^gfled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by ^hthe king’s garden: (now the ⁱChaldees were against the city round about:) and ^jthe king went the way toward ^kthe plain. ⁵And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in ^kthe plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. ⁶So they took the king, and ^lbrought him up to the king of Babylon to ^mRiblah; and they ^†gave judgment upon him. ⁷And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and ^†nput out the eyes of Zedekiah, and ^obound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.