So in the ninth^j year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar^k king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works^l all around it. ²The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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 ⁵but 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 ⁶and 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

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Footnotes

aProbable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.
bOr Chaldeans; also in verses 13, 25 and 26
cOr the Jordan Valley
dOr Chaldean; also in verses 10 and 24

Cross references

j Jer 32:1
k Jer 21:2; 34:1–7
l Isa 23:13; 29:3; Jer 4:16–17; 32:2; 33:4; Eze 21:22; 24:2
mSee Lev 26:26; Isa 22:2; Jer 14:18; 37:21; La 2:20; 4:9
n Job 30:14; Ps 144:14; Jer 50:15; 51:44, 58; Eze 33:21
o Jer 4:17; 6:3
pSee Lev 26:36; Eze 12:14; 17:21
q Isa 22:3; Jer 38:23
rSee Nu 34:11
sSee Dt 28:36; Jer 21:7; 32:4–5; 34:3, 21; Eze 12:11; 19:9; 40:1