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2 Kings 25:1–7, “And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.”
Zedekiah, the king of Judah, found that the Babylonians besieged the city of Jerusalem after he had been king for nine years. The siege was severe and after about eighteen months Zedekiah found that everyone in the city was starving so he decided to escape with some of his army. They went towards the Jordan Valley but the Babylonians followed them and caught up beside the river. The soldiers were scattered in the battle and the king was captured along with all his family. The Babylonians were very cruel. They forced the king to watch while his entire family was killed and then they put out his eyes. They did this so that he would remember that the last thing he saw was the massacre of his family.
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