Jer 52
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THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these
words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son
of Josias king of Juda.
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Thus has the Lord said Or, for, or, concerning you to you, O Baruch.
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Whereas you have said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me;
I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;
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say you to him, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I pull down those whom I have built up,
and I pluck up those whom I have planted. And it came to pass in the ninth year of
his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart
round it, and built Or, forts a wall round about it with large stones.
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And will you seek great things for yourself? seek them not: for, behold, I bring evil
upon all flesh, says the Lord: but I will give to you your life Gr. for a finding for a spoil in every place where you shall
go. - It was the twenty-first ear of Sedekias,
when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s
name was Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobena. So the city was besieged, until
the eleventh year of king Sedekias,
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on the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was severe in the city, and there
was no bread for the people of the land.
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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went out by night by the way of
the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the king’s garden; and
the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they went by the way leading to the
wilderness.
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But the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the country
beyond Jericho; and all his servants were dispersed from about him.
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And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he
judged him.
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And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he slew all
the princes of Juda in Deblatha.
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And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon
brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he
died.
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And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the
guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
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and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of the
city, and every great house he burnt with fire.
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And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all
the wall of Jerusalem round about.
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But the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and
husbandmen.
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And the Chaldeans broke in 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 they
took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon.
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Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith
they ministered;
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and the basons, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the Or, lamp-stands candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups,
the golden, of gold, and the silver,
of silver, the captain of the guard took away.
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And the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the sea, which
things king Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the brass of which articles was
without weight.
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And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line
of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it all round was four fingers.
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And there was a brazen chapter upon them, and the length was five cubits, even the
height of one Chapiter; and there were on the chapiter round about Gr. a net network and pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly
the second pillar had
eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits.
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And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a Gr. part side; and all the pomegranates on the network round about were a hundred.
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And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those
that kept the way;
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and one eunuch, who was Heb. and Alex. +’he took out of the city’ over the men of war, and seven men of renown, who were in
the king’s Gr. face presence that were found in the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part
of a scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who
were found in the midst of the city.
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And Nabuzardan the captain of the king’s guard took them, and brought them to the
king of Babylon to Deblatha.
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And the king of Babylon smote them in Deblatha, in the land of Æmath.
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And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had
been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth day of
the month, that Ulaemadachar king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign,
raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and Or, cut his hair; not in Alex. shaved him, and brought him out of the house where
he was kept,
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and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne Alex. +’the thrones of’ above the kings that were with him in Babylon,
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and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days
that he lived.
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And his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon from day
to day, until the day when he died.