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So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Tzidkiyahu.
3
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
4
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Kasdim were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the `Aravah.
5
But the army of the Kasdim pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Yericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
6
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Bavel to Rivlah; and they gave judgment on him.
7
They killed the sons of Tzidkiyahu before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Tzidkiyahu, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Bavel.
8
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nevukhadnetztzar, king of Bavel, came Nevuzar'adan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Bavel, to Yerushalayim.
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He burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Yerushalayim, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
10
All the army of the Kasdim, who were [with] the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Yerushalayim round about.
11
The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Bavel, and the residue of the multitude, did Nevuzar'adan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
12
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.