2Kings:25:1-26
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And it happened in the ninth year of his reign ,
in the tenth month ,
in the tenth of the month ,
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came ,
he and all his army ,
against Jerusalem ,
and camped against it ,
and built a siege mound all around it .
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And the city entered into siege until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah ,
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on the ninth of the month ,
when the famine was severe in the city ,
and there was no bread for the people of the land ,
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then the city was broken up ,
and by night all the men of war went by way of the gate ,
between the two walls by the king '
s garden ;
and the Chaldeans were against the city all around ;
and the king went the way toward the Arabah .
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And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho ;
and all his army was scattered from him .
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And they seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon ,
to Riblah ;
and they gave judgment on him .
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And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes ,
and blinded Zedekiah '
s eyes ,
and bound him with bronze fetters and caused him to go to Babylon .
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And in the fifth month ,
on the seventh of the month (
it was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar ,
the king of Babylon )
Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners ,
the servant of the king of Babylon ,
came to Jerusalem .
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And he burned the house of Jehovah ,
and the king '
s house ,
and all the houses of Jerusalem ;
yea ,
he burned every great house with fire .
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And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the chief of the executioners broke down the wall of Jerusalem all around .
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And the rest of the people ,
those left in the city ,
and those that had fallen away ,
that fell to the king of Babylon ,
and the rest of the multitude ,
Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled .
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But the chief of the executioners left of the poorest of the land for vinedressers and farmers .
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And the bronze pillars in the house of Jehovah ,
and the bases ,
and the bronze sea in the house of Jehovah ,
the Chaldeans broke in pieces and lifted up their bronze to Babylon .
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And they took the pots ,
and the shovels ,
and the snuffers ,
and the spoons ,
and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered .
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And the chief of the executioners took the firepans ,
and the sprinkling basins ,
all of gold and silver .
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There was no weighing of the bronze of all these vessels ,
the two pillars ,
the one sea ,
and the bases that Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah .
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Eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar ,
and the capital on it was of bronze ,
and the height of the capital was three cubits ,
and the grating and the pomegranates were on the capital all around ;
all was of bronze .
And the second pillar was like these with the grating .
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And the chief of the executioners took Seraiah the head priest ,
and Zephaniah the second priest ,
and the three keepers of the gate ;
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and he took out of the city a certain eunuch who was appointed over the men of war ,
and five men of those who saw the king '
s face ,
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 found in the city .
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And Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners took them and made them go to the king of Babylon ,
to Riblah .
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And the king of Babylon struck them ,
and killed them in Riblah ,
in the land of Hamath ;
and he exiled Judah from its land .
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And the people that were left in the land of Judah ,
whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had left ,
he appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam ,
the son of Shaphan .
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And all the commanders of the army ,
they and the men ,
heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah .
And they came to Gedaliah ,
to Mizpeh ,
even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
and Johanan the son of Careah ,
and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite ,
and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite ,
they and their men .
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And Gedaliah swore to them ,
and to their men ,
and said to them ,
Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans ;
live in the land and serve the king of Babylon ,
and it shall be well with you .
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And it happened in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
the son of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom ,
and ten men with him came ,
and they struck Gedaliah ,
and he died ,
and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him in Mizpah .
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And all the people rose up ,
from the small even to the great ,
and the commanders of the armies ,
and came into Egypt ,
for they were afraid of the face of the Chaldeans .
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