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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it on all sides.
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And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city on all sides:) and [the king] went the way towards the plain.
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And the army of the Chaldees pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
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So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
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And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
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And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem:
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And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house he burnt with fire.
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And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem on all sides.
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Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.