2 Kings 25:4-7
25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls,
and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night.
They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden.
(The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.
25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho,
and his entire army deserted him.
25:6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah,
where he
passed sentence on him.
25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch.
The king of Babylon
then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:18-21
25:18 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.
25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five of the king’s advisers who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.
25:20 Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
25:21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.