2 Kings 25:1-7, Jeremiah 52:1-11 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

2 Kings 25:1-7

Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem

^aNow in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, ^bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and he camped against it and ^cbuilt a siege wall all around ¹it. 2 So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month ^athe famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 4 ^aThen the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside ^bthe king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And ¹they went by way of the Arabah. 5 But the military force of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his military force was scattered from him. 6 Then ^athey seized the king and ^bbrought him up to the king of Babylon at ^cRiblah, and they spoke their judgment on him. 7 ^aAnd they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then he ^bblinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:1-11

The Anger of Yahweh Towards Judah

^aZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ¹^bHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of ^cLibnah. 2 And he did ^awhat was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that ^bJehoiakim had done. 3 For through the ^aanger of Yahweh this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah ^brebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 ^aNow it happened in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and they camped against it and built a ^bsiege wall all around ¹it. 5 ^aSo the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 On the ninth day of the ^afourth month, the ^bfamine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was ^abreached, and all the ^bmen of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were ¹^call around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. 8 But the military force of the Chaldeans pursued the king and ^aovertook Zedekiah in the ¹plains of Jericho, and all his military force was scattered from him. 9 Then they seized the king and ^abrought him up to the king of Babylon at ^bRiblah in the land of ^cHamath, and he ¹spoke his judgment on him. 10 Then the king of Babylon ^aslaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the ¹princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he ^ablinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.