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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. |
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
1presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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Gen 4:16,
2nd Kings 13:23,
2nd Kings 24:20,
Jer 23:39
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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. |
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| 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. |