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Chapter 52 |
| 1 | Zedekiah was
one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of
Libnah. |
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And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done. |
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3 | For through the anger of the
LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. |
| 4 | And it
came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth
day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his
army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it
round about. |
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| So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah. |
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| And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month,
the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of
the land. |
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| Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled,
and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two
walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city
round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. |
| 8 | But the army
of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. |
| 9 | Then they took
the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of
Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. |
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10 | And the king of Babylon
slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of
Judah in Riblah. |
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11 | Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king
of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in
prison till the day of his death. |
| 12 | Now in the fifth month, in
the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king
of Babylon, into Jerusalem, |
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13 | And burned the house of the LORD, and
the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the
great men, burned he with fire: |
| 14 | And all the army of the
Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of
Jerusalem round about. |
| 15 | Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the
people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the
king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. |
| 16 | But
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for
vinedressers and for husbandmen. |
| 17 | Also the pillars of brass
that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was
in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of
them to Babylon. |
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18 | The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the
snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith
they ministered, took they away. |
| 19 | And the basons, and the
firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the
spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of
silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away. |
| 20 | The two
pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king
Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was
without weight. |
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21 | And concerning the pillars, the height of one
pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and
the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. |
| 22 | And a
chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits,
with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The
second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. |
| 23 | And
there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon
the network were an hundred round about. |
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24 | 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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25 | He took also out of the city an
eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were
near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe
of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the
people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. |
| 26 | So
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of
Babylon to Riblah. |
| 27 | And the king of Babylon smote them, and put
them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away
captive out of his own land. |
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28 | This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar
carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and
twenty: |
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| In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: |
| 30 | In
the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons:
all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. |
| 31 | And it came
to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of
Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that
Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison. |
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And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings
that were with him in Babylon, |
| 33 | And changed his prison
garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his
life. |
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And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the
king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days
of his life. |
