²In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was taken by assault. ³And all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the chief officer, Nergal-sharezer the high official, with all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon. ⁴And then^a when^b Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the soldiers^c with him, they fled and went out at night from the city by the way of the garden of the king through the gate between the walls. And they went out toward the Jordan Valley. ⁵But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he pronounced sentence^d on him. ⁶And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah. ⁷Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and tied him up with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon. ⁸And the Chaldeans burned the palace^e of the king and the houses^f of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “And it was”
bLiterally “as that”
cLiterally “the men of the war”
dLiterally “judgments”
eOr “house”
fHebrew “house”