Jeremiah 52:4-11

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⁴ Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They made a camp around the city and built ·devices [siege towers] all around the city walls to attack it. This happened on Zedekiah’s ninth year, tenth month, and tenth day as king [^CJanuary 15, 588]. ⁵ And the city was under ·attack [siege] until Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king [^C586 bc].

⁶ By the ninth day of the fourth month [^CJuly 18], the ·hunger [famine] was ·terrible [severe] in the city; there was no food for the people to eat. ⁷ Then the city wall was ·broken through [breeched], and the whole army [^Cof Judah] ·ran away [fled] at night. They left the city through the gate between the two walls by the king’s garden. Even though the ·Babylonians [^LChaldeans] were surrounding the city, Zedekiah and his men headed toward the ·Jordan Valley [^LArabah].

⁸ But the ·Babylonian [^LChaldean] army chased King Zedekiah and caught him in the ·plains [^LArabah] of Jericho. All of his army was scattered from him. ⁹ So the Babylonians ·captured [seized] Zedekiah and took him to the king of Babylon at the town of Riblah in the land of Hamath. There he ·passed sentence on [judged] Zedekiah. ¹⁰ At Riblah the king of Babylon ·killed [slaughtered] Zedekiah’s sons ·as he watched [^Lbefore his eyes]. The king also ·killed [slaughtered] all the officers of Judah. ¹¹ Then he ·put out Zedekiah’s eyes [blinded the eyes of Zedekiah], and put bronze chains on him, and took him to Babylon. And the king kept Zedekiah in prison there until the day he died.