2Kgs 25
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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, that Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against
it, and built a Or, circumvallation mound against it.
2
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias on the ninth day
of the month.
3
And the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the
land.
4
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went forth by night, by the way
of the gate between the walls, this is the gate of the king’s garden: and the Chaldeans
were set against the city round about: and the king went by the way of Gr. from the Heb. the plain.
5
And the force of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of
Jericho: and all his army was dispersed from about him.
6
And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha; and he
gave judgement upon him.
7
And he slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Sedekias,
and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
8
And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this is the nineteenth year
of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon), came Nabuzardan, Gr. chief cook captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon,
to Jerusalem.
9
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem,
even every house did the captain of the guard burn.
10
And the force of the Chaldeans pulled down the wall of Jerusalem round about.
11
And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left
in the city, and the Gr. deserters men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
12
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and
husbandmen.
13
And the Chaldeans broke to pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the
Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and carried
their brass to Babylon.
14
And the caldrons, and the shovels, and the bowls, and the censers, and all the brazen
vessels with which they minister, he took.
15
And the captain of the guard took the fire-pans, and the gold and silver bowls.
16
Two pillars, and one sea, and the bases which Solomon made for the house of the Lord:
there was no weight of the brass of all the vessels.
17
The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was of brass:
and the height of the chapiter was three cubits: the border, and the pomegranates
on the chapiter round about were all of brass: and so it was with the second pillar
with its border.
18
And the captain of the guard took Saraias the Gr. first priest high-priest, and Sophonias Gr. the son of the second rank the
second in order, and the three doorkeepers.
19
And they took out of the city one eunuch who was commander of the men of war, and
five men that saw the face of the king, that were found in the city, and the secretary
of the commander-in-chief, who took account of the people of the land, and sixty men
of the people of the land that were found in the city.
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And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of
Babylon to Reblatha.
21
And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Reblatha in the land of Æmath.
So Juda was carried away from his land.
22
And as for the people that were left in the land of Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon left, even over them he set Godolias son of Achicam son of Saphan.
23
And all the captains of the host, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon
had thus appointed Godolias, and they came to Godolias to Massephath, both Ismael
the son of Nathanias, and Jona son of Cares, and Saraias, son of Thanamath the Netophathite,
and Jezonias son of a Machathite, they and their men.
24
And Godolias swore to them and their men, and said to them, Fear not the Gr. passage incursion of the Chaldeans; dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and
it shall be well with you.
25
And it came to pass in the seventh month that Ismael son of Nathanias son of Helisama,
of the Gr. seed of the kings seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and he smote Godolias, that he died, him
and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him in Massepha.
26
And all the people, great and small rose up, they and the captains of the forces,
and went into Egypt; because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27
And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the carrying away of Joachim king
of Juda, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evialmarodec
king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Joachim king
of Juda, and brought him out of his prison-house.
28
And he spoke Gr. good things with him kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him
in Babylon;
29
And changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days
of his life.
30
And his portion, a continual portion, was given him out of the house of the king,
Gr. a rate of a day in his day a daily rate for every day all the days of his life.