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Jeremiah 52
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52Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of the Jeremiah who lived in the city of Libnah.H6667H259H6242H8141H1121H4427H4427H259H6240H8141H3389H517H8034H2537H1323H3414H3841
2King Zedekiah sinned against the LORD, just as King Jehoiakim had done.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3079H6213
3The LORD became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,H5921H639H3068H3389H3063H7993H6440H6667H4775H4428H894
4and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,H8671H8141H4427H6224H2320H6218H2320H5019H4428H894H935H2428H3389H2583H1129H1785H5439
5and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.H935H5892H4692H6249H6240H8141H4428H6667
6On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,H7243H2320H8672H2320H7458H2388H5892H3899H5971H776
7the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.H5892H1234H582H4421H1272H3318H5892H3915H1870H8179H2346H4428H1588H3778H5892H5439H3212H1870H6160
8But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.H2428H3778H7291H310H4428H5381H6667H6160H3405H2428H6327
9Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.H8610H4428H5927H4428H894H7247H776H2574H1696H4941
10At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on and he also had the officials of Judah executed.H4428H894H7819H1121H6667H5869H7819H8269H3063H7247
11After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains and taken to Babylon. Zedekiah remained in prison in Babylon until the day he died.H5786H5869H6667H4428H894H631H5178H935H894H5414H1004H6486H3117H4194
12On the tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.H2549H2320H6218H2320H8672H6240H8141H8141H5019H4428H894H935H5018H7227H2876H5975H6440H4428H894H3389
13He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem;H8313H1004H3068H4428H1004H1004H3389H1004H1419H8313H784
14and his soldiers tore down the city walls.H2428H3778H7227H2876H5422H2346H3389H5439
15Then Nebuzaradan took away to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, the remaining skilled workers, and those who had deserted to the Babylonians.H5018H7227H2876H1540H1803H5971H3499H5971H7604H5892H5307H5307H4428H894H3499H527
16But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and he put them to work in the vineyards and fields.H5018H7227H2876H7604H1803H776H3755H3009
17The Babylonians broke in pieces the bronze columns and the carts that were in the Temple, together with the large bronze tank, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.H5982H5178H1004H3068H4350H5178H3220H1004H3068H3778H7665H5375H5178H894
18They also took away the shovels and the ash containers used in cleaning the altar, the tools used in tending the lamps, the bowls used for catching the blood from the sacrifices, the bowls used for burning incense, and all the other bronze articles used in the Temple service.H5518H3257H4212H4219H3709H3627H5178H8334H3947
19They took away everything that was made of gold or silver: the small bowls, the pans used for carrying live coals, the bowls for holding the blood from the sacrifices, the ash containers, the lampstands, the bowls used for incense, and the bowls used for pouring out wine offerings.H5592H4289H4219H5518H4501H3709H4518H2091H2091H3701H3701H3947H7227H2876H3947
20The bronze objects that King Solomon had made for the Temple - the two columns, the carts, the large tank, and the twelve bulls that supported it - were too heavy to weigh.H8147H5982H259H3220H8147H6240H5178H1241H4350H4428H8010H6213H1004H3068H5178H3627H4948
21The two columns were identical: each one was 27 feet high and 18 feet around. They were hollow, and the metal was 3 inches thick.H5982H6967H259H5982H8083H6240H520H2339H8147H6240H520H5437H5672H702H676H5014
22On top of each column was a bronze capital 7 1/2 feet high, and all around it was a grillwork decorated with pomegranates, all of which was also made of bronze.H3805H5178H6967H259H3805H2568H520H7639H7416H3805H5439H5178H8145H5982H7416
23On the grillwork of each column there were a hundred pomegranates in all, and ninety-six of these were visible from the ground.H8673H8337H7416H7307H7416H7639H3967H5439
24In addition, Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners Seraiah the High Priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three other important Temple officials.H7227H2876H3947H8304H7218H3548H6846H4932H3548H7969H8104H5592
25From the city he took the officer who had been in command of the troops, seven of the king's personal advisers who were still in the city, the commander's assistant, who was in charge of military records, and sixty other important men.H3947H5892H259H5631H6496H582H4421H7651H582H7200H4428H6440H4672H5892H8269H5608H6635H6633H5971H776H8346H376H5971H776H4672H8432H5892
26Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of RiblahH5018H7227H2876H3947H3212H4428H894H7247
27in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death. So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.H4428H894H5221H4191H7247H127H2574H3063H1540H776
28This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;H5971H5019H1540H7651H8141H7969H505H3064H7969H6242
29in his eighteenth year, 832 from Jerusalem;H8083H6240H8141H5019H1540H3389H8083H3967H7970H8147H5315
30and in his twenty-third year, 745 - taken away by Nebuzaradan. In all, 4,600 people were taken away.H7969H6242H8141H5019H5018H7227H2876H1540H3064H7651H3967H705H2568H5315H5315H702H505H8337H3967
31In the year that Evil-merodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as a prisoner.H7651H7970H8141H1546H3078H4428H3063H8147H6240H2320H2568H6242H2320H192H4428H894H8141H4438H5375H7218H3078H4428H3063H3318H1004H3628
32Evil-merodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.H1696H2896H5414H3678H4605H3678H4428H894
33So Jehoiachin was permitted to change from his prison clothes and to dine at the king's table for the rest of his life.H8138H3608H899H8548H398H3899H6440H3117H2416
34Each day for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.H737H8548H737H5414H4428H894H3117H3117H1697H3117H4194H3117H2416


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