Jeremiah 39:2-10

New International Version

² And on the ninth day of the fourth^(A) month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city wall^(B) was broken through.^{(C) 3} Then all the officials^(D) of the king of Babylon came and took seats in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer a high official and all the other officials of the king of Babylon. ⁴ When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled; they left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,^(E) and headed toward the Arabah.^[a](F)

⁵ But the Babylonian^[b] army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah^(G) in the plains of Jericho. They captured^(H) him and took him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah^(I) in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him. ⁶ There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the nobles^(J) of Judah. ⁷ Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes^(K) and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.^(L)

⁸ The Babylonians^[c] set fire^(M) to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls^(N) of Jerusalem. ⁹ Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard carried into exile to Babylon the people who remained in the city, along with those who had gone over to him,^(O) and the rest of the people.^{(P) 10} But Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people, who owned nothing; and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.