8. However, the Babylonian army chased down Zedekiah and caught him in the plains of Jericho. (His entire army had fled from him.)
9. They arrested the king and brought him before the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he pronounced sentence on him.
10. The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s children before his very own eyes, and he slaughtered all Judah’s officers at Riblah.
11. Then he gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in chains. The king of Babylon dragged him off to Babylon and put him in prison, where he remained until he died.
12. In the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan commander of the guard came to Jerusalem on behalf of his king.
13. He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the important buildings.
14. The entire Babylonian army and the commander of the guard destroyed the walls surrounding Jerusalem.
15. Nebuzaradan commander of the guard deported some of the poorest people, the rest of the people left in the city, a few skilled workers, and those who had joined the king of Babylon.