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On the ninth day of the fourth month ^(C1)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

^(C1)Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that were beside ^(C2)the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And ^(F1)they went by way of the Arabah.

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

Then ^(C1)they captured the king and ^(C2)brought him up to the king of Babylon at ^(C3)Riblah, and he ^(F1)passed sentence on him.

And ^(C1)they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then ^(C2)put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.

^(C1)Now on the seventh day of the ^(C2)fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.