12:024:018 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when
he began to reign,
and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother’s
name
was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
12:024:019 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the lord,
according
to all that Jehoiakim had done.
12:024:020 For through the anger of the lord
it came to pass in Jerusalem
and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence,
that
Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
12:025:001 And it came to pass in the ninth year of
his reign, in the
tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built
forts
against it round about.
12:025:002 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh
year of king
Zedekiah.
12:025:003 And on the ninth day of the fourth month
the famine prevailed
in
the city, and there was no bread for the people of
the
land.
12:025:004 And the city was broken up, and all the
men of war fled by
night
by the way of the gate between two walls, which is
by
the
king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against
the city
round
about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
12:025:005 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after
the king, and
overtook
him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army
were
scattered
from him.
12:025:006 So they took the king, and brought him
up to the king of
Babylon
to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
12:025:007 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before
his eyes, and put
out
the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of
brass,
and
carried him to Babylon.
12:025:008 And in the fifth month, on the seventh
day of the month, which
is
the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon,
came
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the
king
of
Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
12:025:009 And he burnt the house of the lord,
and the king’s house, and
all
the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s
house burnt
he
with fire.
12:025:010 And all the army of the Chaldees, that
were with the captain
of
the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
12:025:011 Now the rest of the people that were left
in the city, and the
fugitives
that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the
remnant
of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard
carry away.
12:025:012 But the captain of the guard left of the
door of the poor of
the
land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.


