52Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.H6667H259H6242H8141H1121H4427H4427H259H6240H8141H3389H517H8034H2537H1323H3414H3841

2And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3079H6213

3For because of the anger of the LORD things came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.H5921H639H3068H3389H3063H7993H6440H6667H4775H4428H894

4And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.H8671H8141H4427H6224H2320H6218H2320H5019H4428H894H935H2428H3389H2583H1129H1785H5439

5So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.H935H5892H4692H6249H6240H8141H4428H6667

6On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.H7243H2320H8672H2320H7458H2388H5892H3899H5971H776

7Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.H5892H1234H582H4421H1272H3318H5892H3915H1870H8179H2346H4428H1588H3778H5892H5439H3212H1870H6160

8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.H2428H3778H7291H310H4428H5381H6667H6160H3405H2428H6327

9Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.H8610H4428H5927H4428H894H7247H776H2574H1696H4941

10The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.H4428H894H7819H1121H6667H5869H7819H8269H3063H7247

11He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.H5786H5869H6667H4428H894H631H5178H935H894H5414H1004H6486H3117H4194

12In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.H2549H2320H6218H2320H8672H6240H8141H8141H5019H4428H894H935H5018H7227H2876H5975H6440H4428H894H3389

13And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.H8313H1004H3068H4428H1004H1004H3389H1004H1419H8313H784

14And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.H2428H3778H7227H2876H5422H2346H3389H5439

15And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.H5018H7227H2876H1540H1803H5971H3499H5971H7604H5892H5307H5307H4428H894H3499H527

16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.H5018H7227H2876H7604H1803H776H3755H3009

17And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.H5982H5178H1004H3068H4350H5178H3220H1004H3068H3778H7665H5375H5178H894

18And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;H5518H3257H4212H4219H3709H3627H5178H8334H3947

19also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.H5592H4289H4219H5518H4501H3709H4518H2091H2091H3701H3701H3947H7227H2876H3947

20As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.H8147H5982H259H3220H8147H6240H5178H1241H4350H4428H8010H6213H1004H3068H5178H3627H4948

21As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.H5982H6967H259H5982H8083H6240H520H2339H8147H6240H520H5437H5672H702H676H5014

22On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates.H3805H5178H6967H259H3805H2568H520H7639H7416H3805H5439H5178H8145H5982H7416

23There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.H8673H8337H7416H7307H7416H7639H3967H5439

24And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;H7227H2876H3947H8304H7218H3548H6846H4932H3548H7969H8104H5592

25and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.H3947H5892H259H5631H6496H582H4421H7651H582H7200H4428H6440H4672H5892H8269H5608H6635H6633H5971H776H8346H376H5971H776H4672H8432H5892

26And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.H5018H7227H2876H3947H3212H4428H894H7247

27And the king of Babylon struck them down, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.H4428H894H5221H4191H7247H127H2574H3063H1540H776

28This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;H5971H5019H1540H7651H8141H7969H505H3064H7969H6242

29in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons;H8083H6240H8141H5019H1540H3389H8083H3967H7970H8147H5315

30in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.H7969H6242H8141H5019H5018H7227H2876H1540H3064H7651H3967H705H2568H5315H5315H702H505H8337H3967

31And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.H7651H7970H8141H1546H3078H4428H3063H8147H6240H2320H2568H6242H2320H192H4428H894H8141H4438H5375H7218H3078H4428H3063H3318H1004H3628

32And he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.H1696H2896H5414H3678H4605H3678H4428H894

33So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table,H8138H3608H899H8548H398H3899H6440H3117H2416

34and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king according to his daily need, until the day of his death, as long as he lived.H737H8548H737H5414H4428H894H3117H3117H1697H3117H4194H3117H2416