Jeremiah 32:29
32:29 The Babylonian soldiers
that are attacking this city will break into it and set it on fire. They will burn it down along with the houses where people have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods on their rooftops.
Jeremiah 34:21-22
34:21 I will also hand King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials over to their enemies who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the army of the king of Babylon, even though they have temporarily withdrawn from attacking you.
34:22 For I, the
Lord, affirm that
I will soon give the order and bring them back to this city. They will fight against it and capture it and burn it down. I will also make the towns of Judah desolate so that there will be no one living in them.”’”
Jeremiah 38:23
38:23 “All your wives and your children will be turned over to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from them but will be captured by the king of Babylon. This city will be burned down.”
Jeremiah 39:2-8
39:2 It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
On that day they broke through the city walls.
39:3 Then Nergal-Sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim, who was a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer, who was a high official,
and all the other officers of the king of Babylon came and set up quarters
in the Middle Gate.
39:4 When King Zedekiah of Judah and all his soldiers saw them, they tried to escape. They departed from the city during the night. They took a path through the king’s garden and passed out through the gate between the two walls.
Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.
39:5 But the Babylonian
army chased after them. They caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho
and captured him.
They took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon at Riblah
in the territory of Hamath and Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him there.
39:6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon had Zedekiah’s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. The king of Babylon also had all the nobles of Judah put to death.
39:7 Then he had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains
to be led off to Babylon.
39:8 The Babylonians
burned down the royal palace, the temple of the
Lord, and the people’s homes,
and they tore down the wall of Jerusalem.