Jer 52
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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 sight of YHWH, according to all that Jehoiakim
had done.
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For through the anger of YHWH did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he
had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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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 encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
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So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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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 a breach was made in the city, 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 against the city round about;) and they went
toward the Arabah.
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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.
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Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the
land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
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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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And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters,
and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
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Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year
of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,
who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
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and he burned the house of YHWH, and the king`s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem,
even every great house, burned he with fire.
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And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake
down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
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Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the
people, and the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell
away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers
and husbandmen.
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And the pillars of brass that were in the house of YHWH, and the bases and the brazen
sea that were in the house of YHWH, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried
all the brass of them to Babylon.
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The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons,
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
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And the cups, and the firepans, and the basins, and the pots, and the candlesticks,
and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was
of silver, in silver,- the captain of the guard took away.
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The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases,
which king Solomon had made for the house of YHWH-the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
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And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line
of twelve cubits did compass it; and its thickness was four fingers: it was
hollow.
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And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits,
with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and the
second pillar also had like to these, and pomegranates.
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And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were
a hundred upon the network round about.
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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second
priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
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and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and seven
men of them that saw the king`s face, that were found in the city; and the scribe
of the captain 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.
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And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of
Babylon to Riblah.
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And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
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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;
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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
Evil-merodach 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 he spoke 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 [Jehoiachin] did eat bread before him continually
all the days of his life:
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and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon,
every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.