2 Kings 25:3–10

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.

⁸And in the ^pfifth month, on the ^qseventh day of the month, which is ^rthe nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, ^||captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: ⁹And ^she burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and ^tall the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire. ¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldees, that were ^uwith the captain of the guard, ^wbrake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.