Jeremiah 52:10-12
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10 As Zedekiah looked on, the king of Babylon slaughtered his sons before his eyes! All the nobles of Judah were slaughtered at Riblah. 11 And the eyes of Zedekiah he then blinded, bound him with chains, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and kept him in prison until the day he died.
Destruction of Jerusalem. 12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, this was in the nineteenth year[a] of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, came to Jerusalem as the representative of the king of Babylon.
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- 52:12 On the tenth day of the fifth month…nineteenth year: the tenth of Ab—July/August in 587/586 B.C.
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