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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 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and
all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched
against it; and they built forts against it round
about.
02 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh
year of king Zedekiah.
03 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the
famine prevailed in the city, and there was no
bread for the people of the land.
04 And the city was broken up, and all the men of
war fled by night by the way of the gate between
two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now
the Chaldees were against the city round about:)
and the king went the way toward the plain.
05 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the
king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho:
and all his army were scattered from him.
06 So they took the king, and brought him up to
the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave
judgment upon him.
07 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound
him with fetters of brass, and carried him to
Babylon.
08 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of
the month, which is the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of
Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
09 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the
king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem,
and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were
with the captain of the guard, brake down the
walls of Jerusalem round about.
11 Now the rest of the people that were left in
the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the
king of Babylon, with the remnant of the
multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carry away.
12 But the captain of the guard left of the door
of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and
husbandmen.
13 And 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, did the
Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass
of them to Babylon.
14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the
snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of
brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such
things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver,
in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which
Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; the
brass of all these vessels was without weight.
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17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen
cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and
the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the
wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter
round about, all of brass: and like unto these
had the second pillar with wreathen work.
18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,
and the three keepers of the door:
19 And out of the city he took an officer that
was set over the men of war, and five men of them
that were in the king's presence, which were
found in the city, and the principal scribe of
the host, which mustered the people of the land,
and threescore men of the people of the land that
were found in the city:
20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took
these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to
Riblah:
21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew
them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah
was carried away out of their land.
22 And as for the people that remained in the
land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
23 And when all the captains of the armies, they
and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had
made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to
Mizpah, 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.
24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men,
and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants
of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the
king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of
Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men
with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and
the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at
Mizpah.
26 And all the people, both small and great, and
the captains of the armies, arose, and came to
Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth
year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of
Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
king of Babylon in the year that he began to
reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of
Judah out of prison;
28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne
above the throne of the kings that were with him
in Babylon;
29 And changed his prison garments: and he did
eat bread continually before him all the days of
his life.
30 And his allowance was a continual allowance
given him of the king, a daily rate for every
day, all the days of his life.
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