⁷ Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.^{(A) 8} The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.^{(B) 9} Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards,^(C) deported the rest of the people to Babylon—those who had remained in the city and those deserters who had defected to him along with the rest of the people who remained.