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* And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign , in the tenth month , on the tenth of the month , that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came , he , and all his host , against Jerusalem , and encamped against it ; and they built a mound all around about it . * And the city was put in a state of siege until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah . * And on the ninth of the month , when the famine prevailed in the city , and there was no bread for the people of the land : * The city was broken into , and all the men of war in the night by the way of the gate between the two walls , which was by the king ’s garden ; and the people went the way toward the plain . * And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king , and overtook him in the plains of Jericho : and all his army were scattered from around him . * And they seized the king , and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah ; and they called him to account . * And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes , and he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah , and bound him with fetters of brass , and carried him to Babylon . * And in the fifth month , on the seventh day of the month , which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , came Nebusaradan , the chief of the guard , a servant of the king of Babylon , unto Jerusalem : * And he burnt the house of the Lord , and the king ’s house ; also , all the houses of Jerusalem , and every great man ’s house burnt he with fire . * And the walls of Jerusalem round about did all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the guard tear down . * And the rest of the people that were left in the city , and the deserters that had run over to the king of Babylon , with the remnant of the multitude , did Nebusaradan the captain of the guard lead away into exile ; * But from the poorest of the land the captain of the guard left some to be vine –dressers and husbandmen . * And the pillars of copper that were in the house of the Lord , and the bases , and the copper sea that was in the house of the Lord , did the Chaldeans break up , and they carried the copper thereof to Babylon . * And the pots , and the shovels , and the knives , and the spoons , and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered , took they away . * And the censers , and the bowls , the gold of the golden things , and the silver of the silver things , took the captain of the guard away . * The two pillars , the one sea , and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord : the copper of all these vessels was too much to be weighed . * Eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar , and the capital upon it was copper ; and the height of the capital was three cubits ; and the wreathed work , and the pomegranates upon the capitals round about , were all of copper : and the same had the second pillar together with the wreathed work . * And the captain of the guard took Serayah the chief –priest , and Zephanyahu the second priest , and the three door –keepers ; * And out of the city he took one court –officer that was appointed over the men of war , and five men of those that could come into the king ’s presence , who were found in the city , and the scribe of the chief of the army , who ordered to the army the people of the land , and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city : * And Nebusaradan the captain of the guard took these , and conducted them to the king of Babylon to Riblah ; * And the king of Babylon smote them , and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Chamath . So did Judah wander away into exile out of their land . * And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah , whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had left , he appointed over them Gedalyahu the son of Achikam , the son of Shaphan . * And when all the captains of the armies , they and their men , heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedalyahu , they came to Gedalyahu to Mizpah ; even Ishma ’el the son of Nethanyah , and Jochanan the son of Kareach , and Serayah the son of Tanchumeth the Netophathite , and Jaazanyahu the son of a Ma ’achathite , they and their men . * And Gedalyahu swore to them , and to their men , and said unto them , Be not afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans : remain in the land , and serve the king of Babylon ; and it will be well with you . * But it happened in the seventh month , that there came Ishma ’el the son of Nethanyah , the son of Elishama ’, of the seed royal , and ten men with him , and they smote Gedalyahu , so that he died , also the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah . * And then arose all the people , from small to great , and the captains of the armies , and went to Egypt ; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans . * And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoyachin the king of Judah , in the twelfth month , on the seven and twentieth of the month , that Evil –merodach the king of Babylon in the year that he became king did lift up the head of Jehoyachin the king of Judah out of the prison ; * And he spoke kindly to him , and set his chair above the chair of the kings that were with him in Babylon : * And changed his prison garments : and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life . * And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king , the necessary ration for the day on its day , all the days of his life .

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