In Context

2 And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,

3 on the ninth of the month — when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,

4 then the city is broken up, and all the men of war go by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that are by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans are against the city round about, and the king goeth the way of the plain.

5 And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him;

6 and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him — judgment.

7 And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:5 in Other Translations