2 Kings 25:3–10

³By the ninth day of the fourth^a month the famine^m in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. ⁴Then the city wall was broken through,ⁿ and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians^b were surrounding^o the city. They fled toward the Arabah,^{c 5}but the Babylonian^d army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,^{p 6}and he was captured.^q

He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah,^r where sentence was pronounced on him. ⁷They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.^s

⁸On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ⁹He set fire^t to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.^{u 10}The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls^v around Jerusalem.