2 Kings 25:2-10

2The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

3By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

4Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,

5but the Babylonian army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,

6and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where sentence was pronounced on him.

7They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

8On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

9He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

10The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.