And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon.

And in the fifth month, and [a]seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan [b]chief steward and servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem,

And burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:8 Jeremiah writeth, Jer. 52:12, the tenth day, because the fire continued from the seventh day to the tenth.
  2. 2 Kings 25:8 Or, captain of the guard.

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