Jeremiah:52

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* Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne , and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem , &amp ; his mothers name was Hamutal , the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah . * And he did euil in the eyes of the Lord , according to all that Iehoiakim had done . * * But in the ninth yeere of his reigne , in the tenth moneth the tenth day of the moneth came Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel , he and all his hoste against Ierusalem , and pitched against it , &amp ; buylt fortes against it round about . * So the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of the King Zedekiah . * Now in the fourth moneth , the ninth day of the moneth , the famine was sore in ye citie , so that there was no more bread for ye people of the land . * Then the city was broken up , and all the men of war fled , and went forth from the city by night by the (note :)Read ( Jer_39:4 ).(:note ) way of the gate between the two walls , which [was ] by the king 's garden ; (now the Chaldeans [were ] by the city on all sides :) and they went by the way of the plain . * But the army of the Caldeans pursued after the king , and tooke Zedekiah in the desert of Iericho , and all his host was scattered from him . * Then they took the king , and carried him to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath ; (note :)Read ( 2Ki_25:6 ; Jer_39:5 ).(:note ) where he gave judgment upon him . * And the king of Babel slewe the sonnes of Zedekiah , before his eyes he slew also al ye princes of Iudah in Riblah . * Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah , and the king of Babel bound him in chaines , and caried him to Babel , and put him in pryson till the day of his death . * Now in the fifth month , in the (note :)In ( 2Ki_25:8 ) is it called the seventh day , because the fire began then and so continued to the tenth .(:note ) tenth [day ] of the month , which [was ] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon , came Nebuzaradan , captain of the guard , [who ] That is , who was his servant , as in ( 2Ki_25:8 ). served the king of Babylon , into Jerusalem , * And burnt the House of the Lord , and the Kings house , and all the houses of Ierusalem , and all the great houses burnt he with fire . * And al the armie of the Caldeans that were with the chiefe steward , brake downe all ye walles of Ierusalem round about . * Then Nebuzar-adan the chiefe steward caried away captiue certaine of the poore of the people , and the residue of the people that remayned in the citie , and those that were fled , and fallen to the king of Babel , with the rest of the multitude . * But Nebuzar-adan the chiefe steward left certaine of the poore of the lande , to dresse the vines , and to till the land . * Also the (note :)Of these pillars read ( 1Ki_7:15 ).(:note ) 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 , the Chaldeans broke , and carried all the brass of them to Babylon . * The caldrons also , and the (note :)Which were also made of brass , as in ( 1Ki_7:45 ).(:note ) shovels , and the snuffers , and the bowls , and the spoons , and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered , they took away . * And the bowles , and the ashpannes , and the basins , and the pots , and the candlestickes , and the incense dishes , and the cuppes , and all that was of golde , and that was of siluer , tooke the chiefe steward away , * The two pillars , one sea , and twelve brasen bulls that [were ] under the bases , which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD : the brass of all these vessels was without (note :)It was so much in quantity .(:note ) weight . * And concerning the pillars , the height of one pillar was eighteene cubites , and a threede of twelue cubites did compasse it , and the thickenes thereof was foure fingers : it was holowe . * And a chapiter of brasse was vpon it , and the height of one chapiter was fiue cubites with networke , and pomegranates vpon the chapiters round about , all of brasse : the seconde pillar also , and the pomegranates were like vnto these . * And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side ; [and ] all the pomegranates upon the network [were ] an (note :)But because of the roundness , no more could be seen but ninety-six .(:note ) hundred on all sides . * And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest , and Zephaniah (note :)Which served in the high priests stead , if he had any necessary impediment .(:note ) the second priest , and the three keepers of the door : * He took also out of the city an eunuch , who had the charge of the men of war ; and (note :)In ( 2Ki_25:19 ) is read but of five : those were the most excellent and the other two , which were not so noble are not there mentioned with them .(:note ) seven men of them that were near the king 's person , who were found in the city ; and the principal scribe of the host , who mustered the people of the land ; and sixty men of the people of the land , that were found in the midst of the city . * Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde tooke them , and brought them to the king of Babel to Riblah . * And the king of Babel smote them , and slewe them in Riblah , in the lande of Hamath : thus Iudah was caried away captiue out of his owne land . * This [is ] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive : in the (note :)Which was the latter end of the seventh year of his reign and the beginning of the eighth .(:note ) seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty : * In the (note :)To the latter end also of that year , and the beginning of the nineteenth .(:note ) eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons : * In the three and twentieth yeere of Nebuchad-nezzar , Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde caried away captiue of the Iewes seuen hundreth fourtie and fiue persons : all the persons were foure thousand and sixe hundreth . * And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah , in the twelfth month , in the five and twentieth [day ] of the month , [that ] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the [first ] year of his reign (note :)That is , restored him to liberty and honour .(:note ) lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah , and brought him out of prison , * And spake kindly vnto him , and set his throne aboue the throne of the Kings , that were with him in Babel , * And changed his prison (note :)And gave him princely apparel .(:note ) garments : and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life . * And [for ] his food , there was a (note :)That is he had allowance in the court , and thus at length he had rest and quietness because he obeyed Jeremiah the Prophet , while the others were cruelly ordered that would not obey him .(:note ) continual diet given him of the king of Babylon , every day a portion until the day of his death , all the days of his life .

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