¹⁷And the king of Babylon causeth Mattaniah his father’s brother to reign in his stead, and turneth his name to Zedekiah. ¹⁸A son of twenty and one years is Zedekiah in his reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, ¹⁹and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah according to all that Jehoiakim did, ²⁰for, by the anger of Jehovah it hath been against Jerusalem and against Judah, till he cast them out from His presence, that Zedekiah rebelleth against the king of Babylon.

Chapter 25

¹And it cometh to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encampeth against it, and buildeth against it a fortification round about. ²And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah, ³on the ninth of the month—when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land, ⁴then the city is broken up, and all the men of war go by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that are by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans are against the city round about, and the king goeth the way of the plain. ⁵And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him; ⁶and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him—judgment. ⁷And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.

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