11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babel bound him in chains, and carried him to Babel, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month in the [a]tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of the king Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel) came Nebuzaradan chief steward which [b]stood before the king of Babel in Jerusalem,

13 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. Jeremiah 52:12 In 2 Kings 25:8, it is called the seventh day, because the fire began then, and so continued to the tenth.
  2. Jeremiah 52:12 That is, which was his servant, as 2 Kings 25:8.

11 Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.(A)

12 On the tenth day of the fifth(B) month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan(C) commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13 He set fire(D) to the temple(E) of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses(F) of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

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