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