Jeremiah 39:1–7

The Fall of Jerusalem

39In the ^aninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. ²In the ^beleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the ¹city was penetrated.

^3cThen all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, ²Rabsaris, Nergal-Sarezer, ³Rabmag, with the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

^4dSo it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the ⁴plain. ⁵But the Chaldean army pursued them and ^eovertook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to ^fRiblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him. ⁶Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his ^geyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the ^hnobles of Judah. ⁷Moreover ⁱhe put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with bronze ⁵fetters to carry him off to Babylon.