³ I said to the king, ^(A)“Let the king live for ever! Why should not my face be sad, ^(B)when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

⁴ Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by ^(A)the king's garden, though ^(B)the Chaldeans were round the city. And they went in the direction of the ^(C)Arabah. ⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. ⁶ Then they captured the king ^(D)and brought him up to the king of Babylon at ^(E)Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. ⁷ They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^(F)and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

^8 (G)In the fifth month, on ^(H)the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ^9 (I)And he burned the house of the Lord ^(J)and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. ¹⁰ And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, ^(K)broke down the walls round Jerusalem.