2 Kings 25:2–11

²So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³By the ninth day of the ^bfourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

⁴Then ^cthe city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And ^dthe king ¹went by way of the ²plain. ⁵But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. ⁶So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon ^eat Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him. ⁷Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^fput ³out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

⁸And in the fifth month, ^gon the seventh day of the month (which was ^hthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), ⁱNebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ^9jHe burned the house of the Lord ^kand the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, ^lhe burned with fire. ¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^mbroke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.

¹¹Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive ⁿthe rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.