Jeremiah 52:1-11 Sedekias was twenty one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Ameital. She was a daughter of Jeremias of Lobena.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Sedekias was twenty one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Ameital. She was a daughter of Jeremias of Lobena. ² [Omitted] ³ [Omitted] ⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, came with his whole army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it and built a wall around it of square stones, ⁵ and the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias. ⁶ On the ninth day of the; month there was a grievous famine in the city and there was no bread for the people of the land. ⁷ When a breach was made into the city, all the men who were warriors went out by night by the way of the gate between the outer and the inner wall, which was along the king's garden, [though the Chaldeans were all around the city;] and took the road to Araba. ⁸ And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him on the borders of Jericho. And all his servants being dispersed from him, ⁹ they took the king and carried him to the king of Babylon at Deblatha, who passed sentence on him. ¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes. He slew also all the chiefs of Juda at Deblatha. ¹¹ Then he put out the eyes of Sedekias and bound him with chains. And the king of Babylon led him to Babylon and committed him to the slave prison where he continued till the day of his death.