2 Kings 24:20-25:7

English Standard Version

²⁰ For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence.

^(A)And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Fall and Captivity of Judah

25 ^(B)And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, ^(C)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. ^(D)And they built siegeworks all around it. ² So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³ On the ninth day of the fourth month ^(E)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. ⁴ Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by ^(F)the king's garden, and ^(G)the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the ^(H)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 they captured the king ^(I)and brought him up to the king of Babylon at ^(J)Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. ⁷ They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^(K)and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.