“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. 2 And he did [that which
was] evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had
done. 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. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah. 6 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. 7 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. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 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, 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. 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. 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.”
“24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 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. 28 This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away
captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29 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, 32 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. 34 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.” (Jeremiah 52:1-34 AV)
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