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Chapter
52
1
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.
2
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done.
3
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.
4
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.
5
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6
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.
7
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.
8
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.
9
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.
10
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also
all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11
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.
12
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth
year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the
guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
13
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:
14
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard,
brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
15
Then Nebuzar-adan 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.
16
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land
for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
17
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.
18
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.
19
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.
20
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.
21
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.
22
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.
23
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates
upon the network were an hundred round about.
24
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the
second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25
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.
26
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the
king of Babylon to Riblah.
27
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.
28
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh
year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem
eight hundred thirty and two persons:
30
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan 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.
31
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 Evil-merodach 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,
32
And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings
that were with him in Babylon,
33
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him
all the days of his life.
34
And for his diet, there was a 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.
