6 In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month,+ the famine was severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.+ 7 Finally the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers fled from the city by night through the gate between the double wall near the king’s garden, while the Chal·deʹans were surrounding the city; and they continued by the way of the Arʹa·bah.+ 8 But the Chal·deʹan army pursued the king, and they overtook Zed·e·kiʹah+ in the desert plains of Jerʹi·cho, and all his troops were scattered from his side. 9 Then they seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Ribʹlah in the land of Haʹmath, and he passed sentence on him. 10 And the king of Babylon slaughtered Zed·e·kiʹah’s sons before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah there at Ribʹlah. 11 Then the king of Babylon blinded Zed·e·kiʹah’s eyes,+ bound him with copper fetters, brought him to Babylon, and kept him imprisoned until the day of his death.