2Kings:25:1-26

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ylt @2Kings:25:1 @And it cometh to pass , in the ninth year of his reign , in the tenth month , in the tenth of the month , come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon , he and all his force , against Jerusalem , and encampeth against it , and buildeth against it a fortification round about . ylt @2Kings:25:2 @And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah , ylt @2Kings:25:3 @on the ninth of the month -- when the famine is severe in the city , and there hath not been bread for the people of the land , ylt @2Kings:25:4 @then the city is broken up , and all the men of war [go ] by night the way of the gate , between the two walls that [are ] by the garden of the king , and the Chaldeans [are ] against the city round about , and [the king ] goeth the way of the plain . ylt @2Kings:25:5 @And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king , and overtake him in the plains of Jericho , and all his force have been scattered from him ; ylt @2Kings:25:6 @and they seize the king , and bring him up unto the king of Babylon , to Riblah , and they speak with him -- judgment . ylt @2Kings:25:7 @And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes , and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded , and bindeth him with brazen fetters , and they bring him to Babylon . ylt @2Kings:25:8 @And in the fifth month , on the seventh of the month (it [is ] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ), hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners , servant of the king of Babylon , come to Jerusalem , ylt @2Kings:25:9 @and he burneth the house of Jehovah , and the house of the king , and all the houses of Jerusalem , yea , every great house he hath burned with fire ; ylt @2Kings:25:10 @and the walls of Jerusalem round about have all the forces of the Chaldeans , who [are ] with the chief of the executioners , broken down . ylt @2Kings:25:11 @And the rest of the people , those left in the city , and those falling who have fallen to the king of Babylon , and the rest of the multitude , hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners removed ; ylt @2Kings:25:12 @and of the poor of the land hath the chief of the executioners left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen . ylt @2Kings:25:13 @And the pillars of brass that [are ] in the house of Jehovah , and the bases , and the sea of brass , that [is ] in the house of Jehovah , have the Chaldeans broken in pieces , and bear away their brass to Babylon . ylt @2Kings:25:14 @And the pots , and the shovels , and the snuffers , and the spoons , and all the vessels of brass with which they minister they have taken , ylt @2Kings:25:15 @and the fire-pans , and the bowls that [are ] wholly of silver , hath the chief of the executioners taken . ylt @2Kings:25:16 @The two pillars , the one sea , and the bases that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah , there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels ; ylt @2Kings:25:17 @eighteen cubits [is ] the height of the one pillar , and the chapiter on it [is ] of brass , and the height of the chapiter [is ] three cubits , and the net and the pomegranates [are ] on the chapiter round about -- the whole [is ] of brass ; and like these hath the second pillar , with the net . ylt @2Kings:25:18 @And the chief of the executioners taketh Seraiah the head priest , and Zephaniah the second priest , and the three keepers of the threshold , ylt @2Kings:25:19 @and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch who is appointed over the men of war , and five men of those seeing the king 's face who have been found in the city , and the head scribe of the host , who mustereth the people of the land , and sixty men of the people of the land who are found in the city , ylt @2Kings:25:20 @and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners taketh them , and causeth them to go unto the king of Babylon , to Libnah , ylt @2Kings:25:21 @and the king of Babylon smiteth them , and putteth them to death in Riblah , in the land of Hamath , and he removeth Judah from off its land . ylt @2Kings:25:22 @And the people that is left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath left -- he appointeth over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam , son of Shaphan . ylt @2Kings:25:23 @And all the heads of the forces hear -- they and the men -- that the king of Babylon hath appointed Gedaliah , and they come in unto Gedaliah , to Mizpah , even Ishmael son of Nethaniah , and Johanan son of Kareah , and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite , and Jaazaniah son of the Maachathite -- they and their men ; ylt @2Kings:25:24 @and Gedaliah sweareth to them , and to their men , and saith to them , 'Be not afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans , dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon , and it is good for you .' ylt @2Kings:25:25 @And it cometh to pass , in the seventh month , come hath Ishmael son of Nathaniah , son of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom , and ten men with him , and they smite Gedaliah , and he dieth , and the Jews and the Chaldeans who have been with him in Mizpah . ylt @2Kings:25:26 @And all the people rise , from small even unto great , and the heads of the forces , and come in to Egypt , for they have been afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans .

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