24:038:024 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no
man know of these
words,
and thou shalt not die.
24:038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked
with thee, and they
come
unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what
thou
hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we
will
not
put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
24:038:026 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented
my supplication
before
the king, that he would not cause me to return to
Jonathan’s
house, to die there.
24:038:027 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah,
and asked him: and he
told
them according to all these words that the king had
commanded.
So they left off speaking with him; for the matter
was
not perceived.
24:038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison
until the day
that
Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem
was
taken.
24:039:001 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah,
in the tenth
month,
came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army
against
Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
24:039:002 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in
the fourth month, the
ninth
day of the month, the city was broken up.
24:039:003 And all the princes of the king of Babylon
came in, and sat in
the
middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim,
Rabsaris,
Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the
princes
of the king of Babylon.
24:039:004 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah
the king of Judah saw
them,
and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth
out
of the city by night, by the way of the king’s
garden, by
the
gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the
way of the
plain.
24:039:005 But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after
them, and overtook
Zedekiah
in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken
him,
they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
to
Riblah
in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon
him.
24:039:006 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons
of Zedekiah in Riblah
before
his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the
nobles
of
Judah.
24:039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes,
and bound him with
chains,
to carry him to Babylon.
24:039:008 And the Chaldeans burned the king’s
house, and the houses of
the
people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
24:039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive
into
Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in
the
city,
and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the
rest
of the people that remained.


