The Fall and Captivity of Judah
1 Now it came to pass ain the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.
2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 By the ninth day of the afourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
4 Then athe city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And bthe king went by way of the plain.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him.
6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon aat Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.
7 Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, aput out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, aon the seventh day of the month (which was bthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), cNebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9 aHe burned the house of the Lord band the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, che burned with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard abroke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
11 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive athe rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.
12 But the captain of the guard aleft some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.
13 aThe bronze bpillars that were in the house of the Lord, and cthe carts and dthe bronze Sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and ecarried their bronze to Babylon.
14 They also took away athe pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.
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