- 猶大王西底家第九年十月、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒率領全軍來圍困耶路撒冷。
- 西底家十一年四月初九日、城被攻破。
- 耶路撒冷被攻取的時候、巴比倫王的首領、尼甲沙利薛、三甲尼波、撒西金、拉撒力、尼甲沙利薛、拉墨、並巴比倫王其餘的一切首領、都來坐在中門。
- 猶大王西底家和一切兵丁看見他們、就在夜間、從靠近王園兩城中間的門出城逃跑、往亞拉巴逃去。
- 迦勒底的軍隊追趕他們、在耶利哥的平原追上西底家、將他拿住、帶到哈馬地的利比拉、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒那裡.尼布甲尼撒就審判他。
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- This is how Jerusalem was taken: In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army and laid siege to it.
- And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.
- Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and took seats in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer a high official and all the other officials of the king of Babylon.
- When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled; they left the city at night by way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls, and headed toward the Arabah.
- But the Babylonian army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They captured him and took him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him.
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