Jeremiah 52:1-11

11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was 23Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of 4Libnah. 2He did 5evil in the sight of the Lord like all that 6Jehoiakim had done. 3For through the 7anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah 8rebelled against the king of Babylon. 49Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a 10siege wall all around 11it. 512So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6On the ninth day of the 13fourth month the 14famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7Then the city was 15broken into, and all the 16men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were 1718all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. 8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and 19overtook Zedekiah in the 20plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9Then they captured the king and 21brought him up to the king of Babylon at 22Riblah in the land of 23Hamath, and he 24passed sentence on him. 10The king of Babylon 25slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the 26princes of Judah in Riblah. 11Then he 27blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.