Nebuchadnezzar Besiege Jerusalem

Bible History

 2 Kings 25:1 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

2 Kings 25:2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

2 Kings 25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

2 Kings 25:4 Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans  were still encamped all around against the city. And the king went by way of the plain.

2 Kings 25:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him.

2 Kings 25:6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.

2 Kings 25:7 Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, put out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:8 And 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.

2 Kings 25:9 He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

2 Kings 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.

2 Kings 25:11 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.

2 Kings 25:12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.

 (NKJV)