²³ All your wives and ^(A)your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”

¹⁰ Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, ^(A)the king's daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom ^(B)Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to ^(C)the Ammonites.

⁶ The king of Babylon ^(A)slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at ^(B)Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon ^(C)slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.

¹⁸ But if you do not surrender to ^(A)the officials of the king of Babylon, ^(B)then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, ^(C)and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”

⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. ⁹ Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. ¹⁰ The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at ^(A)Riblah. ^11 (B)He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison ^(C)till the day of his death.

The Temple Burned

^12 (D)In the fifth month, on ^(E)the tenth day of the month—that was ^(F)the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who ^(G)served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. ¹³ And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

¹² To ^(A)Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: ^(B)“Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and ^(C)serve him and his people and live. ^13 (D)Why will you and your people die ^(E)by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, ^(F)as the Lord has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

²⁰ He ^(A)took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, ^(B)and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, ²¹ to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had ^(C)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate ^(D)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

⁷ They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^(A)and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

³ And ^(A)the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen ^(B)when he^[a] came to destroy the city, and just like ^(C)the vision that I had seen ^(D)by the Chebar canal. And ^(E)I fell on my face.