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* And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign , in the tenth month , in the tenth [day ] of the month , [that ] Nebuchadnezzar , king of Babylon , came , he and all his host , against Jerusalem and pitched against it ; and they built forts against it round about . * And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah . * And on the ninth of the month the famine prevailed in the city , and there was no bread for the people of the land . * And the city was broken up , and all the men of war [fled ] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls , which is by the king 's garden , with the Chaldees round about the city ; and they went by the way of the plain . * And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho , after all his army had been scattered from him . * So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah , and they sentenced him . * And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with fetters of brass and carried him to Babylon . * And in the fifth month , on the seventh of the month , which [was ] the year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar , king of Babylon , Nebuzaradan , captain of the guard , a servant of the king of Babylon , came to Jerusalem . * And he burnt the house of the LORD and the king 's house and all the houses of Jerusalem , and every great [man 's ] house he burnt with fire . * And all the army of the Chaldees , that [were with ] the captain of the guard , broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about . * Now the rest of the people [that were ] left in the city and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon , with the remnant of the multitude , Nebuzaradan , the captain of the guard , carried away . * But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be ] vinedressers and husbandmen . * And the Chaldees broke in pieces the pillars of brass that [were ] in the house of the LORD and the bases and the brasen sea that [was ] in the house of the LORD and carried the brass of them to Babylon . * They also took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the spoons and all the vessels of brass , with which they ministered . * And the censers and the bowls [and ] such things as [were ] of gold [in ] gold and of silver [in ] silver the captain of the guard took away , also * the two pillars , one sea , and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD ; the brass of all these vessels was without weight . * The height of the one pillar [was ] eighteen cubits , and the chapiter upon it [was ] brass ; and the height of the chapiter three cubits , and network and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about , all of brass ; and the second pillar was like [the first ] with network . * And the captain of the guard took Seraiah , the chief priest , and Zephaniah , the second priest , and the three keepers of the door ; * and out of the city he took a eunuch , that was set over the men of war , and five men of those that were in the king 's presence , who were found in the city , and the principal scribe of the host , who mustered the people of the land , with sixty men of the people of the land [that were ] found in the city . * Nebuzaradan , captain of the guard , took these and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah . * And the king of Babylon smote and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath . So Judah was carried away out of their land . * And [as for ] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar , king of Babylon , left in the land of Judah , he made Gedaliah , the son of Ahikam , the son of Shaphan , governor over them . * And when all the captains of the armies , they and their men , heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor , they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah , [even ] Ishmael , the son of Nethaniah , and Johanan the son of Careah , and Seraiah , the son of Tanhumeth , the Netophathite , and Jaazaniah , the son of Maachathi , they and their men . * Then Gedaliah swore to them and to their men and said unto them , Do not fear the servants of the Chaldees ; dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon , and it shall be well with you . * But in the seventh month , Ishmael , the son of Nethaniah , the son of Elishama of the royal seed , came and ten men with him and smote Gedaliah , that he died , and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah . * Then all the people , both small and great , and the captains of the armies , arose and went to Egypt , for they were afraid of the Chaldees . * And it came to pass after thirty-seven years of the captivity of Jehoiachin , king of Judah , in the twelfth month , on the twenty-seventh [day ] of the month , [that ] Evilmerodach , king of Babylon , in the year that he began to reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin , king of Judah , out of the prison house ; * and he spoke kindly to him and set his seat above the seats of the kings that [were ] with him in Babylon . * And he changed his prison garments , and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life . * And the king caused him to be given his food continually , each thing in its time , all the days of his life .:

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