3. On the ninth day of the month, when famine had gripped the city, and the people of the land had no more food,
4. the city walls were breached. That night, all the soldiers came to the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden (the Chaldeans had the city surrounded), while the king went toward the Arabah.
5. But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the desert near Jericho, abandoned by his whole army.
6. The king was therefore arrested and brought to Riblah to the king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him.
7. They slew Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes; then they put out his eyes, bound him with fetters, and brought him to Babylon.