2 Kings 25:2-9

New American Standard Bible

² So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³ On the ninth day of the fourth month ^(A)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. ^4 (B)Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that were beside ^(C)the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And ^[a]they went by way of the Arabah. ⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. ⁶ Then ^(D)they captured the king and ^(E)brought him up to the king of Babylon at ^(F)Riblah, and he ^[b]passed sentence on him. ⁷ And ^(G)they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then ^(H)put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.

Jerusalem Burned and Plundered

^8 (I)Now on the seventh day of the ^(J)fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ⁹ And ^(K)he burned the house of the Lord, ^(L)the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.