1 In the ninth year of Zedeki´ah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrez´zar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
2 And in the eleventh year of Zedeki´ah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Ner´gal–share´zer, Samgar–ne´bo, Sar´sechim, Rab–sa´ris, Ner´gal–share´zer, Rab–mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
4 And it came to pass, that when Zedeki´ah 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.
5 But the Chalde´ans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedeki´ah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnez´zar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.