Jeremiah 52:4–16

^4aNow it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a ^bsiege wall all around ¹it.

^5aSo the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

⁶On the ninth day of the ^afourth month the ^bfamine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

⁷Then the city was ^abroken into, and all the ^bmen of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were ^1call around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

⁸But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and ^aovertook Zedekiah in the ¹plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

⁹Then they captured the king and ^abrought him up to the king of Babylon at ^bRiblah in the land of ^cHamath, and he ¹passed sentence on him.

¹⁰The king of Babylon ^aslaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the ¹princes of Judah in Riblah.

¹¹Then he ^ablinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

^12aNow on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the ^bnineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, ^cNebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, ¹who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

¹³He ^aburned the house of the Lord, the ^bking’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

¹⁴So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^abroke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

¹⁵Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard ^acarried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the ^1bdeserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

¹⁶But ^aNebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and ¹plowmen.