Jeremiah 39:4-7
Read Jeremiah 39 in full →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.