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.

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.  ‡