Jeremiah 39:1-7
Read Jeremiah 39 in full →The Walls of Jerusalem Torn Down
391Now when Jerusalem was captured 2,ain the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his military force came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it; 2in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city was abreached. 3Then all the aofficials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the bMiddle Gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the 1Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the 2Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon. 4Now it happened that when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they afled and went out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate bbetween the two walls; and he went out toward the 1Arabah. 5But the military force of the aChaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the 1,bplains of Jericho; and they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at cRiblah in the land of Hamath, and he spoke judgment on him. 6Then the aking of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah bbefore his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slaughtered all the cnobles of Judah. 7He then ablinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in bfetters of bronze to bring him to cBabylon.