Finally, Jerusalem is taken. The fall of Jerusalem is a big deal and is recorded three times in the Bible, once in 2 Kings and twice in Jeremiah.
All three accounts state that the famine in the city is very severe and there was no food to eat. The city wall is broken and the army flees. There is no stated connection between the severity of the famine and the wall coming down, but perhaps the guards were too weak to fend off the Babylonian siege machines any longer.
The Babylonians catch King Hezekiah, kill his children in front of him, blind his eyes, then carry him off to Babylon.
King Hezekiah never took Jeremiah's advice of surrendering. Perhaps this would have prevented them from killing his sons before blinding him.
The Babylonians then carry off much of the population of Jerusalem. One account states that the Babylonians left the poor in the city, but gave them the vineyards that are now empty.
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