Jeremiah:52:1-30

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* Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king , and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem . His mother 's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah . * He also did evil in the sight of the LORD , according to all that Jehoiakim had done . * For because of the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusalem and Judah , till He finally cast them out from His presence . Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon . * Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign , in the tenth month , on the tenth day of the month , that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it ; and they built a siege wall against it all around . * So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah . * By the fourth month , on the ninth day of the month , the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land . * Then the city wall was broken through , and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls , which was by the king 's garden , even though the Chaldeans were near the city all around . And they went by way of the plain . * But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king , and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho . All his army was scattered from him . * So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath , and he pronounced judgment on him . * Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes . And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah . * He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah ; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters , took him to Babylon , and put him in prison till the day of his death . * Now in the fifth month , on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ), Nebuzaradan , the captain of the guard , who served the king of Babylon , came to Jerusalem . * He burned the house of the LORD and the king 's house ; all the houses of Jerusalem , that is , all the houses of the great , he burned with fire . * And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around . * Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poor people , the rest of the people who remained in the city , the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon , and the rest of the craftsmen . * But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers . * The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD , and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD , the Chaldeans broke in pieces , and carried all their bronze to Babylon . * They also took away the pots , the shovels , the trimmers , the bowls , the spoons , and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered . * The basins , the firepans , the bowls , the pots , the lampstands , the spoons , and the cups , whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver , the captain of the guard took away . * The two pillars , one Sea , the twelve bronze bulls which were under it , and the carts , which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure . * Now concerning the pillars : the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits , a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference , and its thickness was four fingers ; it was hollow . * A capital of bronze was on it ; and the height of one capital was five cubits , with a network and pomegranates all around the capital , all of bronze . The second pillar , with pomegranates was the same . * There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides ; all the pomegranates , all around on the network , were one hundred . * The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest , Zephaniah the second priest , and the three doorkeepers . * He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war , seven men of the king 's close associates who were found in the city , the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land , and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city . * And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah . * Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath . Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land . * These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive : in the seventh year , three thousand and twenty-three Jews ; * in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons ; * in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar , Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons . All the persons were four thousand six hundred .

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