The Babylonians pillage the city, including the temple and the king's treasuries. A lot of the head officials of Judah are brought before Nebuchadnezzar who has them executed.
Jeremiah himself is bound in chains and is led out of the city with all the exiles. However, King Nebuchadnezzar had given orders to free Jeremiah. The captain of the Babylonian guard finds Jeremiah among the captives and interestingly, the Babylonian guard lectures Jeremiah that the reason that Jerusalem fell was because the people rejected God. I find this peculiar because it was Jeremiah who lectured to Judah the same, but here a Babylonian was saying the same to Jeremiah. Perhaps word had gotten out to the Babylonian army during the siege that the God of Israelites wanted Jerusalem to fall.
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