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.
02 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of
the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had
done.
03 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.
04 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.
05 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh
year of king Zedekiah.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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 Nebuzaradan,
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 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.
16 But Nebuzaradan 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.
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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 Nebuzaradan 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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