King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace there.

“Babylon must fall because of the Israelites she has killed, just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell because of Babylon.

The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors.

These are the people of the province who were going up, from the captives of the exile whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile in Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city.

He sent it with Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah. King Zedekiah of Judah had sent these men to Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The letter said:

And all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use them as examples when they put a curse on anyone. They will say, “May the Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted to death in the fire!”

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.

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. The nations will not come streaming to him any longer. Indeed, the walls of Babylon will fall.”

He had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains. Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died.

This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:

“You say, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets of good news for us here in Babylon.’

The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”

The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.

Cries of anguish will come from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.

“Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!”

The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

At that time the generals of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.