Jeremiah 52

52Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king; he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; [she was] from Libnah.H6667H259H6242H8141H1121H4427H4427H259H6240H8141H3389H517H8034H2537H1323H3414H38412Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD's sight just as Jehoiakim had done.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3079H62133Because of the LORD's anger, it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that He finally banished them from His presence. Nevertheless, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.H5921H639H3068H3389H3063H7993H6440H6667H4775H4428H8944In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall all around it.H8671H8141H4427H6224H2320H6218H2320H5019H4428H894H935H2428H3389H2583H1129H1785H54395The city was under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.H935H5892H4692H6249H6240H8141H4428H66676By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.H7243H2320H8672H2320H7458H2388H5892H3899H5971H7767Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled. They left the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.H5892H1234H582H4421H1272H3318H5892H3915H1870H8179H2346H4428H1588H3778H5892H5439H3212H1870H61608The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah's entire army was scattered from him.H2428H3778H7291H310H4428H5381H6667H6160H3405H2428H63279The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.H8610H4428H5927H4428H894H7247H776H2574H1696H494110At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons before his eyes and also slaughtered the Judean commanders.H4428H894H7819H1121H6667H5869H7819H8269H3063H724711Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.H5786H5869H6667H4428H894H631H5178H935H894H5414H1004H6486H3117H419412On the tenth day of the fifth month— which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, entered Jerusalem as the representative of the king of Babylon.H2549H2320H6218H2320H8672H6240H8141H8141H5019H4428H894H935H5018H7227H2876H5975H6440H4428H894H338913He burned the LORD's temple, the king's palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the nobles.H8313H1004H3068H4428H1004H1004H3389H1004H1419H8313H78414The whole Chaldean army with the commander of the guards tore down all the walls surrounding Jerusalem.H2428H3778H7227H2876H5422H2346H3389H543915Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.H5018H7227H2876H1540H1803H5971H3499H5971H7604H5892H5307H5307H4428H894H3499H52716But some of the poor people of the land Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, left to be vinedressers and farmers.H5018H7227H2876H7604H1803H776H3755H300917Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the LORD's temple and the water carts and the bronze reservoir that were in the LORD's temple, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.H5982H5178H1004H3068H4350H5178H3220H1004H3068H3778H7665H5375H5178H89418They took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the sprinkling basins, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in [temple] service.H5518H3257H4212H4219H3709H3627H5178H8334H394719The commander of the guards took away the bowls, the firepans, the sprinkling basins, the pots, the lampstands, the pans, and the drink offering bowls— whatever was gold or silver.H5592H4289H4219H5518H4501H3709H4518H2091H2091H3701H3701H3947H7227H2876H394720As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the 12 bronze bulls under the water carts that King Solomon had made for the LORD's temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.H8147H5982H259H3220H8147H6240H5178H1241H4350H4428H8010H6213H1004H3068H5178H3627H494821One pillar was 27 feet tall, had a circumference of 18 feet, was hollow— four fingers thick—H5982H6967H259H5982H8083H6240H520H2339H8147H6240H520H5437H5672H702H676H501422and had a bronze capital on top of it. One capital, encircled by bronze latticework and pomegranates, stood seven and a half feet high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates.H3805H5178H6967H259H3805H2568H520H7639H7416H3805H5439H5178H8145H5982H741623[Each capital had] 96 pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the latticework numbered 100.H8673H8337H7416H7307H7416H7639H3967H543924The commander of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.H7227H2876H3947H8304H7218H3548H6846H4932H3548H7969H8104H559225From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people who were found within the city.H3947H5892H259H5631H6496H582H4421H7651H582H7200H4428H6440H4672H5892H8269H5608H6635H6633H5971H776H8346H376H5971H776H4672H8432H589226Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.H5018H7227H2876H3947H3212H4428H894H724727The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah went into exile from its land.H4428H894H5221H4191H7247H127H2574H3063H1540H77628These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;H5971H5019H1540H7651H8141H7969H505H3064H7969H624229in his eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;H8083H6240H8141H5019H1540H3389H8083H3967H7970H8147H531530in Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported 745 Jews. All together 4,600 people [were deported].H7969H6242H8141H5019H5018H7227H2876H1540H3064H7651H3967H705H2568H5315H5315H702H505H8337H396731On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah's King Jehoiachin, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from the prison.H7651H7970H8141H1546H3078H4428H3063H8147H6240H2320H2568H6242H2320H192H4428H894H8141H4438H5375H7218H3078H4428H3063H3318H1004H362832He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.H1696H2896H5414H3678H4605H3678H4428H89433So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon for the rest of his life.H8138H3608H899H8548H398H3899H6440H3117H241634As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.H737H8548H737H5414H4428H894H3117H3117H1697H3117H4194H3117H2416