^10 (A)Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

⁷ Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^(A)put^[a] out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(A)“Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; ^(B)but I shall bring you out of the midst of it. ⁸ You have ^(C)feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,” says the Lord God. ⁹ “And I will bring you out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and ^(D)execute judgments on you. ^10 (E)You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at ^(F)the border of Israel. ^(G)Then you shall know that I am the Lord. ^11 (H)This city shall not be your ^[a]caldron, nor shall you be the meat in its midst. I will judge you at the border of Israel.

^6 (A)Utterly^[a] slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but ^(B)do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and ^(C)begin at My sanctuary.” ^(D)So they began with the elders who were before the ^[b]temple.

The People Taken Captive to Babylonia

^24 (A)The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, ^(B)Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. ²⁵ He also took out of the city an ^[a]officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. ²⁶ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷ Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

⁶ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his ^(A)eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the ^(B)nobles of Judah. ⁷ Moreover ^(C)he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with bronze ^[a]fetters to carry him off to Babylon.

^18 (A)And the captain of the guard took ^(B)Seraiah the chief priest, ^(C)Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. ¹⁹ He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, ^(D)five men of ^[a]the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the chief recruiting officer of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. ²⁰ So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²¹ Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. ^(E)Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

³⁴ So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.