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18 Tsedkiyyah (Zedekiah) was twenty-one when he became king and he reigned from Yerushalem for eleven years. (His mother was Yirmeyah’s daughter Hamutal from Livnah.) 19 He did what Yahweh had said was evil, just like Yehoyakin had done. 20 Because Yahweh was still very angry, he had the people of Yerushalem and all Yehudah driven away out of his sight.

Then Tsedkiyyah rebelled against the Babylonian king.

25 In the ninth year of Tsedkiyyah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar brought all his army to Yerushalem. They made their camp outside the city, and then built attack structures all around it 2 and besieged the city for two years. 3 The people didn’t have enough to eat and the famine became severe. 4 Then the Babylonians began breaking into the city, but the local fighters sneaked out at night through a gate between two walls near the king’s garden and escaped down to the desert plain. 5 However, the Babylonian soldiers chased after the king and they overtook him on the Yericho plains, and his army scattered. 6 King Tsedkiyyah was captured and taken to the Babylonian king at Rivlah, where he was sentenced— 7 He was forced to watch as his sons were slaughtered, then his eyes were gouged out and he was taken to Babylon restrained with two bronze chains.