2 Kings 25:1-9 ▼

1 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar (may Nebo protect the crown) king of Babylon (confusion by mixing) marched against Jerusalem (city of peace) with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built \He encamped outside it and they built/ a siege wall all around it.

2 And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s (YHWH is righteous) eleventh year.

3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

4 Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans (the Babylonians) had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah (the Jordan Valley),

5 but the army of the Chaldeans (clod-breakers) pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho (city of palms), and his whole army deserted him.

6 The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon (confusion by mixing) at Riblah (fertility), where they pronounced judgment on him.

7 And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah (YHWH is righteous) before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon (confusion by mixing).

8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s (may Nebo protect the crown) reign over Babylon (confusion by mixing), Nebuzaradan (Nebo has given seed) captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem (city of peace).

9 He burned down the house of the LORD {YHWH}, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem (city of peace)—every significant building.