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Then a breach was made in the city ;
the king with all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls ,
by the king '
s garden ,
though the Chalde '
ans were around the city .
And they went in the direction of the Arabah .
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But the army of the Chalde '
ans pursued the king ,
and overtook him in the plains of Jericho ;
and all his army was scattered from him .
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Then they captured the king ,
and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah ,
who passed sentence upon him .
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They slew the sons of Zedeki '
ah before his eyes ,
and put out the eyes of Zedeki '
ah ,
and bound him in fetters ,
and took him to Babylon .
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In the fifth month ,
on the seventh day of the month--which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnez '
zar ,
king of Babylon--Nebu '
zarad '
an ,
the captain of the bodyguard ,
a servant of the king of Babylon ,
came to Jerusalem .
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And he burned the house of the LORD ,
and the king '
s house and all the houses of Jerusalem ;
every great house he burned down .
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And all the army of the Chalde '
ans ,
who were with the captain of the guard ,
broke down the walls around Jerusalem .
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And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon ,
together with the rest of the multitude ,
Nebu '
zarad '
an the captain of the guard carried into exile .
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But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen .