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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,
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so they captured Zedekiah and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There he passed sentence on Zedekiah.
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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.
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Nebuzaradan was the commander of the king's special guards. This officer of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem on the seventh day of the fifth month, in Nebuchadnezzar's nineteenth year as king of Babylon.
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Nebuzaradan set fire to the Temple of the Lord and the palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building was burned.