52ZEDEKIAH WAS twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah [not the prophet] of Libnah.H6667H259H6242H8141H1121H4427H4427H259H6240H8141H3389H517H8034H2537H1323H3414H38412And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3079H62133For all this came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah because of the anger of the Lord, and [in the end] He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.H5921H639H3068H3389H3063H7993H6440H6667H4775H4428H8944And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they pitched against it and built moveable towers {and} siege mounds against it round about.H8671H8141H4427H6224H2320H6218H2320H5019H4428H894H935H2428H3389H2583H1129H1785H54395So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.H935H5892H4692H6249H6240H8141H4428H66676And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no bread for the people of the land.H7243H2320H8672H2320H7458H2388H5892H3899H5971H7767Then the city [wall] was broken through, so that all the men of war might flee, and they went forth out of the city by night [as Ezekiel had foretold] by way of the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were round about the city. And they [the Jewish soldiers fled] by way of the Arabah (the Jordan Valley).H5892H1234H582H4421H1272H3318H5892H3915H1870H8179H2346H4428H1588H3778H5892H5439H3212H1870H61608But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.H2428H3778H7291H310H4428H5381H6667H6160H3405H2428H63279Then they seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the [Syrian] land of Hamath [on the northern border of Israel], where he pronounced sentence upon him.H8610H4428H5927H4428H894H7247H776H2574H1696H494110And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he slew also all the princes of Judah at Riblah.H4428H894H7819H1121H6667H5869H7819H8269H3063H724711Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with shackles and carried him to Babylon and put him in prison [mill] till the day of his death.H5786H5869H6667H4428H894H631H5178H935H894H5414H1004H6486H3117H419412Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, there came to Jerusalem Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, who stood {and} served before the king of Babylon.H2549H2320H6218H2320H8672H6240H8141H8141H5019H4428H894H935H5018H7227H2876H5975H6440H4428H894H338913And he burned the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he consumed with fire.H8313H1004H3068H4428H1004H1004H3389H1004H1419H8313H78414And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls round about Jerusalem.H2428H3778H7227H2876H5422H2346H3389H543915Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and those who were left in the city [at the time it was captured], along with those who went out to the king of Babylon [during the siege] and the remnant of the multitude [the country's working people].H5018H7227H2876H1540H1803H5971H3499H5971H7604H5892H5307H5307H4428H894H3499H52716But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.H5018H7227H2876H7604H1803H776H3755H300917Also the pillars of bronze that belonged to the house of the Lord, and the bronze bases {or} pedestals [which supported the ten basins] and the bronze Sea {or} huge laver that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried all the bronze of them to Babylon.H5982H5178H1004H3068H4350H5178H3220H1004H3068H3778H7665H5375H5178H89418The pots [for carrying away ashes] also and the shovels and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service they took away.H5518H3257H4212H4219H3709H3627H5178H8334H394719Also the small bowls and the firepans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the incense cups and the bowls for the drink offerings--whatever was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and whatever was of silver as silver.H5592H4289H4219H5518H4501H3709H4518H2091H2091H3701H3701H3947H7227H2876H394720The two pillars, one Sea {or} huge laver, and twelve bronze bulls {or} oxen under the Sea, which King Solomon had made in the house of the Lord--the bronze of all these things was beyond weighing.H8147H5982H259H3220H8147H6240H5178H1241H4350H4428H8010H6213H1004H3068H5178H3627H494821Concerning the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits (twenty-seven feet), and an ornamental molding of twelve cubits (eighteen feet) went around its circumference; it was four fingers thick, and it [the pillar] was hollow.H5982H6967H259H5982H8083H6240H520H2339H8147H6240H520H5437H5672H702H676H501422An upper part {or} capital of bronze was on top of it. The height of one capital was five cubits (seven and one-half feet), with a network and pomegranates around it, all of bronze. The second pillar also, with its pomegranates, was similar to these.H3805H5178H6967H259H3805H2568H520H7639H7416H3805H5439H5178H8145H5982H741623And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; and all the pomegranates upon the network were a hundred round about.H8673H8337H7416H7307H7416H7639H3967H543924And the captain of the guard took [as prisoners] Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the door.H7227H2876H3947H8304H7218H3548H6846H4932H3548H7969H8104H559225He took also out of the city a court officer who had been overseer of the soldiers, and seven men of them who were next to the king [as advisers] {and} saw his face, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the prince {or} captain 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.H3947H5892H259H5631H6496H582H4421H7651H582H7200H4428H6440H4672H5892H8269H5608H6635H6633H5971H776H8346H376H5971H776H4672H8432H589226And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.H5018H7227H2876H3947H3212H4428H894H724727And the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.H4428H894H5221H4191H7247H127H2574H3063H1540H77628This is the number of people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;H5971H5019H1540H7651H8141H7969H505H3064H7969H624229In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons;H8083H6240H8141H5019H1540H3389H8083H3967H7970H8147H531530In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the [Babylonian] guard carried away captive of the Jews 745 persons. All the persons were 4,600.H7969H6242H8141H5019H5018H7227H2876H1540H3064H7651H3967H705H2568H5315H5315H702H505H8337H396731And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin [also called Coniah and Jeconiah] king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah [and showed favor to him] and brought him out of prison.H7651H7970H8141H1546H3078H4428H3063H8147H6240H2320H2568H6242H2320H192H4428H894H8141H4438H5375H7218H3078H4428H3063H3318H1004H362832He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were [captives] with him in Babylon,H1696H2896H5414H3678H4605H3678H4428H89433Jehoiachin put off his prison garments, and he dined regularly at the king's table all the days of his life.H8138H3608H899H8548H398H3899H6440H3117H241634And his allowance, a continual one, was given him by the king of Babylon, a portion according to his requirements until the day of his death, all the days of his life.H737H8548H737H5414H4428H894H3117H3117H1697H3117H4194H3117H2416