Jeremiah 52:4–16

⁴And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it; they built siegeworks against it all around.^{* 5}So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ⁶On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.^{* 7}Then a breach was made in the city wall,^x and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.^{* 8}But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered, deserting him.^{* 9}Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.^{* 10}The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the officers of Judah at Riblah.^{* 11}He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.^*

¹²In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.^{* 13}He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.^{* 14}All the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.^{* 15}Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.^{* 16}But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.^*