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2 Kings 25:8

Verse 8 of 30. The 25th of 25 chapters in 2 Kings, in History.

4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

5But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

6Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.

7They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

9He burned the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every great house with fire.

10All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

11Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who were left in the city and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon—all the rest of the multitude.

12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

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