Jeremiah 52:1-11

11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for 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, in accordance with everything that 6Jehoiakim had done. 3For because of the 7anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, until He drove them out from His presence. And Zedekiah 8revolted 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 1011bulwark all around 12it. 513So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6On the ninth day of the 14fourth month the 15famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7Then the city was 16breached, and all the 17warriors fled and left the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were 1819all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. 8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and 20overtook Zedekiah in the 21desert plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9Then they captured the king and 22brought him up to the king of Babylon at 23Riblah in the land of 24Hamath, and he 25passed sentence on him. 10And the king of Babylon 26slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the commanders of Judah in Riblah. 11Then he 27blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze shackles and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.