¹⁷ Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender^(A) to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.^(B)

²⁰ “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey^(A) the Lord by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well^(B) with you, and your life^(C) will be spared.

⁴ When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled; they left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,^(A) and headed toward the Arabah.^[a](B)

⁷ Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes^(A) and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.^(B)