2 Kings 25:3–10

³In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land. ⁴Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war entered by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, so he^a left by the way of the Arabah. ⁵But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him. ⁶So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.^{b 7}They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.

Jerusalem Is Sacked and the Temple Burned

⁸In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ⁹He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire. ¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the commander of the imperial guard tore down the walls of Jerusalem all around.