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men of warre, euen ten thousande into captiuitie, house, and all the houses of Ierusalem, and all the
and all the workemen, and cunning men: so none great houses burnt he with fire. 10 And all the
remained sauing the poore people of the lande. armie of the Caldees that were with the chiefe
15 And he caryed away Iehoiachin into Babel, and stewarde, brake downe the walles of Ierusalem
And the rest of the people that
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round about.
the Kings mother, and the Kinges wiues, and his were left in the citie, and those that were fled and
eunuches, and the mightie of the lande caryed fallen to the King of Babel, with the remnant of
he away into captiuitie from Ierusalem to Babel, the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan chiefe steward
16 And al the men of warre, euen seuen thousand, carie away captiue. 12 But the chiefe steward left
and carpenters, and lockesmithes a thousande: of the poore of the land to dresse the vines, and
all that were strong and apt for warre, did the to till the land. 13 Also the pillars of brasse that
King of Babel bring to Babel captiues. 17 And the were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and
King of Babel made Mattaniah his vncle King in the brasen Sea that was in the house of the Lord,
his steade, and changed his name to Zedekiah. did the Caldees breake, and caried the brasse of
18 Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde, when them to Babel. 14 The pots also and the besomes,
he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres and the instruments of musike, and the incense
in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Hamu- dishes, and al the vessels of brasse that they
tal the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah. 19 And he ministred in, tooke they away. 15 And the asshe
did euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all pannes, and the basens, and all that was of gold,
that Iehoiakim had done. 20 Therefore certainly and that was of siluer, tooke the chiefe steward
the wrath of the Lord was against Ierusalem and away, 16 With the two pillars, one Sea and the
Iudah vntill he cast them out of his sight. And bases, which Salomon had made for the house
of the Lord: the brasse of all these vessels was
Zedekiah rebelled against the King of Babel. without weight. 17 The height of the one pillar

25 was eighteene cubits, and the chapiter thereon
was brasse, and the height of the chapiter was
1 And in the ninth yeere of his reigne, the tenth with networke three cubites, and pomegranates
moneth and tenth day of the moneth Nebuchad- vponthechapiterroundeabout, allofbrasse: and
nezzar King of Babel came, he, and all his hoste likewise was the second pillar with the networke.
against Ierusalem, and pitched against it, and 18 And the chiefe steward tooke Seraiah the chiefe
they built fortes against it round about it. 2 So Priest, and Zephaniah the second Priest, and the
the citie was besieged vnto the eleueth yeere three keepers of the doore. 19 And out of the citie
of King Zedekiah. 3 And the ninth day of the heetookeanEunuchthathadtheouersightofthe
moneth the famine was sore in the citie, so that men of warre, and fiue men of them that were
there was no bread for the people of the lande. in the Kinges presence, which were founde in
4 Then the citie was broken vp, and all the men the citie, and Sopher captaine of the hoste, who
of warre fled by night, by the way of the gate, mustred the people of the lande, and threescore
which is betweene two walles that was by the men of the people of the lande, that were founde
Kings garden: nowe the Caldees were by the citie in the citie. 20 And Nebuzar-adan the chiefe
round about: and the King went by the way of stewarde tooke them, and brought them to the
the wildernesse. 5 But the armie of the Caldees King of Babel to Riblah. 21 And the King of Babel
pursued after the King, and tooke him in the de- smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land
sertes of Iericho, and all his hoste was scattered of Hamath. So Iudah was caried away captiue
from him. Then they tooke the King, and caried out of his owne land. 22 Howbeit there remained
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him vp to the King of Babel to Riblah, where they people in the land of Iudah, whom Nebuchad-
gaue iudgement vpon him. 7 And they slew the nezzar King of Babel left, and made Gedaliah
sonnes of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the sonne of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan ruler
the eyes of Zedekiah, and bounde him in chaines, ouer them. 23 Then when all the captaines of
and caried him to Babel. And in the fift moneth, the host and their men heard, that the king
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and seuenth day of the moneth, which was the of Babel had made Gedaliah gouernour, they
nineteenth yere of King Nebuchad-nezzar King came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, to wit, Ishmael the
of Babel, came Nebuzar-adan chiefe stewarde sonne of Nethaniah, and Iohanan the sonne of
and seruaunt of the King of Babel, to Ierusalem, Kareah, and Seraiah the sonne of Tanhumeth
9 And burnt the house of the Lord, and the Kings the Netophathite, and Iaazaniah the sonne of