And it came to pass in the ^aninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that ^bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they ^cbuilt forts against it round about.

 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

 4 And the ^acity was ^bbroken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

 5 And the army of the Chaldees ^apursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were ^bscattered from him.

 6 So they took the ^aking, and brought him up to the king of ^bBabylon to Riblah; and they gave ^cjudgment upon him.

 7 And they slew the ^asons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and ^bcarried him to ^cBabylon.

 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came ^aNebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

 9 And he ^aburnt the ^bhouse of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house ^cburnt he with fire.