3
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.
4
Then the city was broken into, and the whole army ran away at night through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden. While the Babylonians were still surrounding the city, Zedekiah and his men ran away toward the Jordan Valley.
5
But the Babylonian army chased King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the plains of Jericho. All of his army was scattered from him,
6
so they captured Zedekiah and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There he passed sentence on Zedekiah.
7
They killed Zedekiah's sons as he watched. Then they put out his eyes and put bronze chains on him and took him to Babylon.