⁴When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled; they left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,^d and headed toward the Arabah.^a^e

⁵But the Babylonian^b army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah^f in the plains of Jericho. They captured^g him and took him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah^h in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him. ⁶There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the noblesⁱ of Judah. ⁷Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes^j and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.^k

⁸The Babylonians^c set fire^l to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls^m of Jerusalem. ⁹Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard carried into exile to Babylon the people who remained in the city, along with those who had gone over to him,ⁿ and the rest of the people.^o ¹⁰But Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people, who owned nothing; and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.

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Footnotes

aOr the Jordan Valley
bOr Chaldean
cOr Chaldeans

Cross references

dSee Isa 22:11
e Eze 12:12
fSee Jer 24:8; See 32:4
gSee Jer 21:7
hSee Nu 34:11
iSee Isa 34:12
jSee Nu 16:14; Eze 12:13
kSee Jer 2:35
lSee Jer 34:22
mSee Ne 1:3; See Ps 80:12; See Isa 22:5; La 2:8
n Jer 21:9
o Jer 40:1; La 1:5