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 btheking 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 wasbthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), cNebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9aHe burned the house of the Lordband the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, che burned with fire.
The army of the Chaldeans pursued - Zedekiah was taken, and brought captive to Riblah in Syria, where Nebuchadnezzar then lay, who ordered his sons to be slain before his face, and then put out his eyes; and having loaded him with chains, sent him to Babylon, (see Jeremiah 39:4, Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 52:7, Jeremiah 52:11), thus fulfilling the prophetic declarations, that his eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon, Jeremiah 32:4; Jeremiah 34:3; but Babylon he should not see, though he was to die there; Ezekiel 12:13.
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