4. The city was breached, and all the fighting men fled by night by the way of thegate between the two walls, which is by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went along the way of the Arabah.
5. Then the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army deserted him.
6. So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence upon him.
7. They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah. They bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.
8. In the fifth month, on 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. He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every great house he burned with fire.
10. All the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard tore down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
11. The rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the crowd Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard took into exile.
12. But the captain of the bodyguard left some of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.
13. The bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, the stands, and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.
14. The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the incense bowls, and all the bronze implements which were used in service they took away.
15. The fire pans and sprinkling basins that were fine gold and fine silver the captain of the bodyguard took.
16. The two pillars, the one sea, and the stands, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord—the bronze of all these implements was beyond weight.