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.
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