King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.

Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

These are the leaders and those enrolled with them by genealogy who were coming up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, “This one was born there.”

By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion.

O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

‘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.’”

“The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.

“The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says to all those he sent into exile to Babylon from Jerusalem,

‘So pay attention to what I, the Lord, have said, all you exiles whom I have sent to Babylon from Jerusalem.’

They had also heard him say, “The Lord says, ‘This city will certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon. They will capture it.’”

Then he had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains to be led off to Babylon.

Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had issued orders concerning Jeremiah. He had passed them on through Nebuzaradan, the captain of his royal guard,

The Lord spoke concerning Babylon and the land of Babylonia through the prophet Jeremiah.

“People of Judah, get out of Babylon quickly! Leave the land of Babylonia! Be the first to depart! Be like the male goats that lead the herd.