11. Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.
12. On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
13. He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
14. The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
15. Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.
16. But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
17. The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the Lord and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.