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

^(j)They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then ^(k)put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.

^(l)Now on the seventh day of the ^(m)fifth 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.

⁽ⁿ⁾He burned the house of the Lord , ^(o)the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.