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 the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah . * And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah , according to all that Jehoiakim had done . * For although the anger of Jehovah was upon 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 , in the tenth day of the month , that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came , he and all his army , against Jerusalem , and encamped against it and built siege walls against it all around . * So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah . * And in the fourth month , in the ninth of the month , the famine was so severe in the city , so that there was no food for the people of the land . * Then 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 . (And the Chaldeans lay in wait all around the city .) And they went by the way of the plain . * But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho . And all his army was scattered from him . * So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon , to Riblah in the land of Hamath , where he passed judgment against him . * And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes . He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah . * And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah . And the king of Babylon bound him in chains , and brought 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 the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ), Nebuzaradan , captain of the guard , who served the king of Babylon , came into Jerusalem . * And he burned the house of Jehovah , and the king ’s house . And he burned with fire all the houses of Jerusalem , and all the houses of the great ones . * And all the army of the Chaldeans , with the captain of the guard , broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around . * And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took captive some of the poor of the people , and the rest of the people who remained in the city , and those who deserted , who had defected to the king of Babylon , and the rest of the multitude . * But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers . * Also the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the house of Jehovah , and the bases , and the bronze sea in the house of Jehovah , and carried all the bronze from them to Babylon . * They also took away the pots , and the shovels , and the snuffers , and the bowls , and the spoons , and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered . * And the captain of the guard took away the basins , and the firepans , and the bowls , and the pots , and the lampstands , and the spoons , and the cups ; what was gold , in gold ; and what was silver , in silver . * The two pillars , one sea , and twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases , which King Solomon had made in the house of Jehovah ; the bronze of all these vessels was without weight . * And concerning the pillars : the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits . And a measuring line of twelve cubits went around it , and its thickness was four fingers ; it was hollow . * And a capital of bronze was on it . And the height of one capital was five cubits , with network and pomegranates on the capitals all around , all of bronze . The second pillar also , and the pomegranates , were like these . * And there were ninety-six pomegranates on a side ; all the pomegranates on the network were a hundred all around . * And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest , and Zephaniah the second priest , and the three doorkeepers . * He also took out of the city an official who was in charge of the men of war ; and seven men from those who were close to the king , who were found in the city ; and the chief 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 middle of the city . * And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah . * And the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath . Thus Judah was taken captive out of his own land . * These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive : in the seventh year , three thousand and twenty-three Jews ; * in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he took captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons ; * in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar , Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took captive seven hundred and forty-five persons of the Jews . All the persons were four thousand and six hundred . * And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah , in the twelfth month , in the twenty-fifth of the month , that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah , and brought him out of prison , * and spoke kindly to him , and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon . * And he changed from his prison garments , and he ate bread before him all the days of his life . * And as for his allowance : a continual allowance was given him from the king of Babylon , the matter day by day , until the day of his death , all the days of his life .

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