5. The city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6. On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city reached a point that no food remained for the people.
7. The enemy entered the city, and all the soldiers fled by night along the gate between the two walls by the royal gardens. So the Babylonians surrounded the city while the soldiers fled toward the desert plain.
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.