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.
2 Kings 24:20-25:7
Common English Bible
20 It was precisely because the Lord was angry with Jerusalem and Judah that he thrust them out of his presence.
The southern kingdom falls
Now Zedekiah rebelled against the Babylonian king. 25 1 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. He camped beside the city and built a siege wall all around it. 2 The city was under attack until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 3 On the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city got so bad that no food remained for the common people. 4 Then the enemy broke into the city. All the soldiers fled[a] by night using the gate between the two walls near the King’s Garden. The Chaldeans were surrounding the city, so the soldiers ran toward the desert plain. 5 But the Chaldean army chased King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the Jericho plains. His entire army deserted him. 6 So the Chaldeans captured the king and brought him back to the Babylonian king, who was at Riblah. There his punishment was determined. 7 Zedekiah’s sons were slaughtered right before his eyes. Then he was blinded, put in bronze chains, and taken off to Babylon.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 25:4 LXX, cf Jer 52:7; MT lacks fled.
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