5. But the Chaldean army 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, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
7. They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
8. Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9. He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
10. All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
11. Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
12. But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
13. The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon.
14. They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.