Jeremiah 52:4-11

Living Bible

⁴ In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came with all his army against Jerusalem and built forts around it, ⁵ and laid siege to the city for two years. ⁶ Then finally, on the ninth day of the fourth month, when the famine in the city was very serious, with the last of the food entirely gone, ⁷ the people in the city tore a hole in the city wall and all the soldiers fled from the city during the night, going out by the gate between the two walls near the king’s gardens (for the city was surrounded by the Chaldeans), and made a dash for it across the fields, toward Arabah.

⁸ But the Chaldean soldiers chased them and caught King Zedekiah in some fields near Jericho—for all his army was scattered from him. ⁹ They brought him to the king of Babylon who was staying in the city of Riblah in the kingdom of Hamath, and there judgment was passed upon him. ¹⁰ He made Zedekiah watch while his sons and all the princes of Judah were killed before his eyes. ¹¹ Then his eyes were gouged out, and he was taken in chains to Babylon and put in prison for the rest of his life.