2 Kings 24:20-25:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered the Lord that he expelled them from his presence.
The Fall and Captivity of Judah
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.(A) 25 1
2 Kings 24:20-25:7
Holman Christian Standard Bible
20 Because of the Lord’s anger,(A) it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that He finally banished them from His presence.(B) Then, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.(C)
Nebuchadnezzar’s Siege of Jerusalem
25 In the ninth year(D) of Zedekiah’s reign,(E) on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army.(F) They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.(G) 2 The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.(H) 4 Then the city was broken into,(I) and all the warriors fled(J) by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden,(K) even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,(L) 5 the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army was scattered from him.(M) 6 The Chaldeans seized the king(N) and brought him up to the king of Babylon(O) at Riblah,(P) and they passed sentence on him. 7 They slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.(Q)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.