3
By the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
4
Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors [fled] by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,
5
the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah's entire army was scattered from him.
6
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
7
They slaughtered Zedekiah's sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze [chains], and took him to Babylon.