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 . * He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh , according to all that Jehoiakim had done . * For through the anger of Yahweh it happened in Jerusalem and Judah , until he had cast them out from his presence . Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon . * It happened 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 they built forts against it round about . * So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah . * In the fourth month , in the ninth day of the month , the famine was severe in the city , so that there was no bread for the people of the land . * Then a breach was made in the city , 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 against the city all around ;) and they went toward the Arabah . * But 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 . * Then they took the king , and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath ; and he gave judgment on him . * The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes : he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah . * He put out the eyes of Zedekiah ; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters , and carried him to Babylon , and put him in prison until the day of his death . * Now in the fifth month , in the tenth day of the month , which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar , king of Babylon , came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard , who stood before the king of Babylon , into Jerusalem : * and he burned the house of Yahweh , and the king 's house ; and all the houses of Jerusalem , even every great house , burned he with fire . * 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 of the poorest of the people , and the residue of the people who were left in the city , and those who fell away , who fell to the king of Babylon , and the residue of the multitude . * But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers . * The Chaldeans broke the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh , and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh in pieces , and carried all the of their brass to Babylon . * They also took away the pots , the shovels , the snuffers , the basins , the spoons , and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered . * The captain of the guard took away the cups , the fire pans , the basins , the pots , the lampstands , the spoons , and the bowls ; that which was of gold , in gold , and that which was of silver , in silver . * They took the two pillars , the one sea , and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases , which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh . The brass of all these vessels was without weight . * As for the pillars , the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits ; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it ; and its thickness was four fingers . It was hollow . * A capital of brass was on it ; and the height of the one capital was five cubits , with network and pomegranates on the capital all around , all of brass : and the second pillar also had like these , and pomegranates . * There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides ; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around . * The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest , and Zephaniah the second priest , and the three keepers of the threshold : * and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war ; and seven men of those who saw the king 's face , who were found in the city ; and the scribe of the captain 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 . * Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them , and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah . * The king of Babylon struck them , and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath . So Judah was carried away captive out of his land . * This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive : in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews ; * in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons ; * in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons : all the persons were four thousand and six hundred . * It happened 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 , lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah , and brought him forth 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 changed his prison garments . Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life : * and for his allowance , there 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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