Jeremiah 39:2-8

2On the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the city wall was broken through.

3Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sarezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sarezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of Babylon’s king.

4Now when King Zedekiah of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled. They went out of the city at night, by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, heading out toward the way of the Arabah.

5But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they captured him, they brought him up to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he passed judgment on him.

6The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes. Moreover, the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

7Then he blinded Zedekiah’s eyes, and he bound him in shackles to carry him off to Babylon.

8Then the Chaldeans burned the king’s palace and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.