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THE FALL OF YERU SHALEM
Sidqi Yah is a son of twenty-one years in beginning to reign; and he reigns eleven years in Yeru Shalem: and the name of his mother, Hamutal the daughter of Yirme Yah of Libnah.
2 And he works evil in the eyes of Yah Veh according to all Yah Yaqim worked.
3 For because of the wrath of Yah Veh it is in Yeru Shalem and Yah Hudah, until he casts them from his face; and Sidqi Yah rebels against the sovereign of Babel.
4 And so be it, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, Nebukadnets Tsar sovereign of Babel comes - he and all his valiant against Yeru Shalem and encamp against it; and builds battering towers against it all around:
5 thus the city comes under siege to the eleventh year of sovereign Sidqi Yah.
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine prevails in the city, and there is no bread for the people of the land.
7 Then the city splits and all the men of war flee; and go from the city by night by the way of the portal between the two walls by the garden of the sovereign - the Kesediym are all around the city; and they go by the way of the plain:
8 and the valiant of the Kesediym pursue the sovereign and overtake Sidqi Yah in the plains of Yericho; and all his valiant scatter from him:
9 and they apprehend the sovereign, and ascend him to the sovereign of Babel - to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he words judgment on him.
10 And the sovereign of Babel slaughters the sons of Sidqi Yah in front of his eyes: he also slaughters all the governors of Yah Hudah in Riblah:
11 and he blinds the eyes of Sidqi Yah; and the sovereign of Babel binds him in coppers and carries him to Babel; and gives him in the house of visitation until the day of his death.