Jeremiah:52

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* Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem ; and his mother 's name was Hamutal , daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah . * And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah , according to all that Jehoiakim had done . * For , because the anger of Jehovah was against Jerusalem and Judah , until he had cast them out from his presence , Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon . * And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign , in the tenth month , on the tenth of the month , [that ] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came , he and all his army , against Jerusalem ; and they encamped against it , and built turrets against it round about . * And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah . * In the fourth month , 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 into : and all the men of war fled , and went forth out of the city by night , by the way of the gate between the two walls , which was by the king 's garden (now the Chaldeans were near the city round about ); and they went the way toward the plain . * And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king , and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho ; and all his army was scattered from him . * And they took the king , and brought him up to the king of Babylon , unto Riblah in the land of Hamath , and he pronounced judgment upon him . * And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes ; and he slaughtered also all the princes of Judah in Riblah . * And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah , and bound him with chains of brass ; and the king of Babylon carried him to Babylon , and put him in prison till the day of his death . * And in the fifth month , on the tenth of the month , which was in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , Nebuzar-adan , captain of the body-guard , who stood before the king of Babylon , came unto Jerusalem ; * and he burned the house of Jehovah , and the king 's house , and all the houses of Jerusalem ; and every great [man 's ] house he burned with fire . * And all the army of the Chaldeans , that were with the captain of the body-guard , broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about . * And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive of the poorest sort of the people , and the rest of the people that were left in the city , and the deserters that had deserted to the king of Babylon , and the rest of the multitude . * But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen . * And the brazen pillars that were in the house of Jehovah , and the bases , and the brazen sea that was in the house of Jehovah , the Chaldeans broke up , and carried all the brass thereof to Babylon . * The pots also , and the shovels , and the knives , and the bowls , and the cups , and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered , they took away . * And the basons and the censers , and the bowls , and the pots , and the candlesticks , and the cups , and the goblets , that which was of gold in gold , and that which was of silver in silver , the captain of the body-guard took away . * The two pillars , the one sea , and the twelve brazen oxen that formed the bases , which king Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah : for the brass of all these vessels there was no weight . * And as to the pillars : the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits , and a line of twelve cubits encompassed it ; and the thickness thereof was four fingers : it was hollow . * And the capital upon it was brass , and the height of the one capital [was ] five cubits ; and the network and the pomegranates , upon the capital round about , all of brass ; and similarly for the second pillar , and the pomegranates . * And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the [four ] sides ; all the pomegranates upon the network were a hundred round about . * And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the chief priest , and Zephaniah the second priest , and the three doorkeepers . * And out of the city he took a eunuch that was set over the men of war , and seven men of them that were in the king 's presence , who were found in the city , and the scribe of the captain of the host , who enrolled the people of the land . And sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city . * And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them , and brought 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 Hamath . Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land . * This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive : in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews ; * in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar [he carried away captive ] from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons ; * in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar , Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons : all the persons were four thousand six hundred . * And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah , in the twelfth month , on the twenty-fifth of the month , [that ] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon , in the year that he began to reign , lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah , and brought him forth out of prison ; * and he spoke kindly unto him , and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon . * And he changed his prison garments ; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life ; * and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon , every day a portion until the day of his death , all the days of his life .

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