4. Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled by night by the way of the gate between the double walls near the king’s garden—though the Chaldeans were all around the city—and they went by the way to the Arabah.
5. But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him.
6. So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and passed sentence on him.
7. They slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
8. Now on the seventh day of the fifth month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the imperial guard, officer of the Babylonian king, came to Jerusalem.
9. He burned down the House of Adonai, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem—every notable building he burned with fire.
10. Then the whole Chaldean army that was with the captain of the guard demolished the walls of Jerusalem on every side.