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* And it happened in the ninth year of his reign , in the tenth month , in the tenth day of the month , Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came . He and all his army came against Jerusalem and pitched against it , and built a siege-mound all around it . * And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah , * on the ninth of the [fourth ] month , when famine was severe in the city , and there was no bread for the people of the land . * And the city was broken up , and by night all the men of war [went ] by the way of the gate between two walls , which is by the king 's garden . And the Chaldeans were against the city all round . And the king went the way toward the plain . * And the army of the Chaldees pursued the king , and overtook him in the plains of Jericho . And all his army were scattered from him . * And they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon , to Riblah . And they gave judgment on him . * And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes , and put out the eyes of Zedekiah , and bound him with bronze chains and carried him to Babylon . * And in the fifth month , on the seventh of the month ; it was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ; Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners , a servant of the king of Babylon , came to Jerusalem . * And he burned the house of the LORD , and the king 's house , and all the houses of Jerusalem . And every great one 's house he burned with fire . * And all the army of the Chaldeans who [were ] with the chief of the executioners broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around . * And the rest of the people who were left in the city , and the fugitives who fell away to the king of Babylon , with the rest of the multitude , the chief of the executioners carried away . * But the chief of the executioners left a few of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen . * And the bronze pillars in the house of the LORD , and the bases , and the bronze sea in the house of the LORD , the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried the bronze from them to Babylon . * And the pots , and the shovels , and the snuffers , and the spoons , and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered , they also took away . * And the chief of the executioners took away the fire-pans , and the bowls , that [were ] all of gold , and all of silver ; * also the two pillars , the one sea , and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD . The bronze of all these vessels was without weight . * The height of the one pillar [was ] eighteen cubits , and the capital on it [was ] bronze . And the height of the capital [was ] three cubits . And the grating and the pomegranates on the capital all around [were ] all of bronze . And the second pillar had grating like these . * And the chief of the executioners took Seraiah the chief priest , and Zephaniah the second priest , and the three doorkeepers . * And he took out of the city a certain eunuch who was appointed over the men of war , and five men of those who were in the king 's presence , who were found in the city , and the chief scribe of the army (who called up the people of the land together ), and sixty men of the people of the land found in the city . * And Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners took these and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah . * And the king of Babylon struck them and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath . And he exiled Judah from its land . * And he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam , the son of Shaphan , ruler over the people who remained in the land of Judah , whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left . * And all the commanders of the army , they and their men , heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor . And 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 a Maachathite , they and their men . * And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men , and said to them , Do not fear to be the servants of the Chaldeans . Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon , and it shall be well with you . * And it happened in the seventh month , Ishmael the son of Nethaniah , the son of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom , and ten men with him , came and struck Gedaliah , and he died , and also the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah . * And all the people , both small and great , and the commanders of the armies , arose and came to Egypt . For they were afraid of the Chaldeans . * And it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah , in the twelfth month , on the twenty-seventh of the month , Evil-merodach king of Babylon , in the year that he began to reign , lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison . * And he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who [were ] with him in Babylon . * And he changed his prison clothes . And he always ate bread before him all the days of his life . * And his allowance [was ] a regular allowance given him from the king , a daily ration for every day , all the days of his life .

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