^{1 Ref} And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

² So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

^{3 Ref} On the ninth day of the `fourth' month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

^{4 Ref} Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war `fled' by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and `the king' went by the way of the Arabah.

^{5 Ref} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

^{6 Ref} Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

^{7 Ref} And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

^{8 Ref} Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.

^{9 Ref} And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

^{10 Ref} And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were `with' the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

^{11 Ref} And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.

^{12 Ref} But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.