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Chapter 25 |
| 1 | And it came to
pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of
the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it
round about. |
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| And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah. |
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| And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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| 4 | And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the
way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the
Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward
the plain. |
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| And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from
him. |
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So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. |
| 7 | And they slew
the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and
bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. |
| 8 | And in
the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year
of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard,
a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: |
| 9 | And he burnt
the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem,
and every great man's house burnt he with fire. |
| 10 | And all the
army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the
walls of Jerusalem round about. |
| 11 | Now the rest of the people
that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of
Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carry away. |
| 12 | But the captain of the guard left of the
door of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. |
| 13 | And
the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the
brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces,
and carried the brass of them to Babylon. |
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14 | And the pots, and the
shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away. |
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15 | And the firepans, and
the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver,
the captain of the guard took away. |
| 16 | The two pillars, one sea, and
the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all
these vessels was without weight. |
| 17 | The height of the one pillar
was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the
chapiter three cubits; and the wreathed work, and pomegranates upon the
chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar
with wreathed work. |
| 18 | And the captain of the guard took Seraiah
the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
door: |
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And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the
men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were
found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the
people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were
found in the city: |
| 20 | And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took
these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: |
| 21 | And the
king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So
Judah was carried away out of their land. |
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22 | And as for the people that
remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left,
even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
ruler. |
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| And when all the captains of the armies, they and their
men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of
Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the
son of a Maachathite, they and their men. |
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24 | And Gedaliah sware to
them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the
Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be
well with you. |
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25 | But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and
ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the
Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. |
| 26 | And all the people, both
small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for
they were afraid of the Chaldees. |
| 27 | And it came to pass in the
seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of
Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; |
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28 | And he spake kindly to
him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in
Babylon; |
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| And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread
continually before him all the days of his life. |
| 30 | And his
allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for
every day, all the days of his life. |
