Jeremiah 52:1-11 ▼

1 Zedekiah was a son of twenty-one years in his reigning, and eleven years he reigned in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 And He did the evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

3 For because of the anger of YHWH it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until His casting them from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—he and all his army—against Jerusalem. And they encamped against it and built against it a siege wall all around.

5 And the city came to be under siege until the one and tenth year of King Zedekiah.

6 In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the hunger had become strong in the city, and there was not food for the people of the land.

7 And the city was broken through, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls that was by the garden of the king—and the Chaldeans were upon the city all around. They went by way of the Arabah,

8 and the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

9 And they took the king, and brought up him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he spoke against him the judgment.

10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and all the officials of Judah he killed in Riblah.

11 And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and he bound him in bronze fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in the house of oversight until the day of his death.