Jeremiah:52:1-30
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Zedekiah was one and twenty 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 .
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And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD ,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done .
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For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah ,
till he had cast them out from his presence ,
that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon .
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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign ,
in the tenth month ,
in the tenth day of the month ,
that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came ,
he and all his army ,
against Jerusalem ,
and pitched against it ,
and built forts against it round about .
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So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah .
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And in the fourth month ,
in the ninth day of the month ,
the famine was sore in the city ,
so that there was no bread for the people of the land .
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Then the city was broken up ,
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 by the city round about :)
and they went by the way of the plain .
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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 .
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Then they took the king ,
and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath ;
where he gave judgment upon him .
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And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes :
he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah .
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Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah ;
and the king of Babylon bound him in chains ,
and carried him to Babylon ,
and put him in prison till the day of his death .
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Now in the fifth month ,
in the tenth day of the month ,
which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
came Nebuzaradan ,
captain of the guard ,
which served the king of Babylon ,
into Jerusalem ,
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And burned the house of the LORD ,
and the king '
s house ;
and all the houses of Jerusalem ,
and all the houses of the great men ,
burned he with fire :
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And all the army of the Chaldeans ,
that were with the captain of the guard ,
brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about .
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Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people ,
and the residue of the people that remained in the city ,
and those that fell away ,
that fell to the king of Babylon ,
and the rest of the multitude .
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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen .
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Also the 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 brake ,
and carried all the brass of them to Babylon .
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The caldrons also ,
and the shovels ,
and the snuffers ,
and the bowls ,
and the spoons ,
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered ,
took they away .
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And the basons ,
and the firepans ,
and the bowls ,
and the caldrons ,
and the candlesticks ,
and the spoons ,
and the cups ;
that which was of gold in gold ,
and that which was of silver in silver ,
took the captain of the guard away .
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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 weight .
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And concerning the pillars ,
the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits ;
and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it ;
and the thickness thereof was four fingers :
it was hollow .
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And a chapiter of brass was upon it ;
and the height of one chapiter was five cubits ,
with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about ,
all of brass .
The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these .
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And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side ;
and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about .
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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest ,
and Zephaniah the second priest ,
and the three keepers of the door :
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He took also out of the city an eunuch ,
which had the charge of the men of war ;
and seven men of them that were near the king '
s person ,
which were found in the city ;
and the principal scribe of the host ,
who mustered the people of the land ;
and threescore men of the people of the land ,
that were found in the midst of the city .
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So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them ,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah .
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And the king of Babylon smote them ,
and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath .
Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land .
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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive :
in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty :
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In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons :
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In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons :
all the persons were four thousand and six hundred .