CHAP. XXXIX
1 IN the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth moneth, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon a, and all his army, against Jeru∣salem, and they besieged it.
2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the city was broken up b.
3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sate in the middle gate c, even Ner∣gal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sar-sechim; Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon d.
4 ¶ And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war e, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night f, by the way of the kings garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls, and he went out the way of the plain g.
5 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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he † gave judgment upon him h.