2 Kings 24:20-25:7
World English Bible
20 For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
25 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. 2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread 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, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah. 5 But the Chaldean army 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, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him. 7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:20-25:7
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 common people had no food.(H) 4 Then the city was broken into,(I) and all the warriors fled(J) at night by way of the city 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 left him and scattered.(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)
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