The Bible Study Podcast, episode 589.

Today, the Bible Study podcast concludes the study of the kings of Israel and Judah with Second Kings 25.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast.

This is your host, Chris Christensen, and I thought we would never get here.

And of course, if you were in Judah, you probably also thought they would never get to a rather bad conclusion that happens today.

Because even though God had been sending prophets for year after year after year,

they weren't listening. And it goes like this. Second King's 25. So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's

reign on the 10th day of the 10th month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against

Jerusalem with his whole army.

He camped outside the city and built siege walls all around it.

The city was kept under siege until the 11th year of King Zedekiah.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

Then the city wall was broken through and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, though the Babylonians were surrounding the city.

They fled toward Ereba, but the Babylonian army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho.

All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, and he was captured.

He was taken to the king of Babylon at Ribla, where a sentence was pronounced on him.

They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,

Nebuchadne, commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building

he burned down. The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the Imperial Guard broke

down the walls around Jerusalem. Nebazirondin, the commander of the guard, carried into exile the people who remained in the

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