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the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of 20 The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze
Babylon and all his army came against Jerusa- bulls which were under it, and the carts,
lem and encamped against it; and they built a which King Solomon had made for the house
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siege wall against it all around. So the city was of the LORD—the bronze of all these articles
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besieged until the eleventh year of King was beyond measure. Now concerning the
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Zedekiah. By the fourth month, on the ninth day pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen
of the month, the famine had become so severe cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could
in the city that there was no food for the people measure its circumference, and its thickness
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of the land. Then the city wall was broken was four fingers; it was hollow. A capital of
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through, and all the men of war fled and went out bronze was on it; and the height of one capital
of the city at night by way of the gate between the was five cubits, with a network and pome-
two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even granates all around the capital, all of bronze.
though the Chaldeans were near the city all The second pillar, with pomegranates was the
around. And they went by way of the plain. same. There were ninety-six pomegranates
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8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around
king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains on the network, were one hundred.
of Jericho. All his army was scattered from 24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the
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him. So they took the king and brought him chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and
up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land the three doorkeepers. He also took out of
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of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on the city an officer who had charge of the men
him. Then the king of Babylon killed the of war, seven men of the king’s close associ-
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sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he ates who were found in the city, the principal
killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. He scribe of the army who mustered the people of
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also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king the land, and sixty men of the people of the
of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took land who were found in the midst of the city.
him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the 26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
day of his death. took these and brought them to the king of
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12 Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of Babylon at Riblah. Then the king of Babylon
the month (which was the nineteenth year of struck them and put them to death at Riblah in
King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who away captive from its own land.
served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusa- 28 These are the people whom Nebuchad-
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lem. He burned the house of the LORD and nezzar carried away captive: in the seventh
the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
that is, all the houses of the great, he burned 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he
with fire. And all the army of the Chaldeans carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hun-
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who were with the captain of the guard broke dred and thirty-two persons; in the twenty-
down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan
15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard the captain of the guard carried away captive
carried away captive some of the poor people, of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five per-
the rest of the people who remained in the sons. All the persons were four thousand six
city, the defectors who had deserted to the hundred.
king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. 31 Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh
16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Ju-
left some of the poor of the land as vine- dah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth
dressers and farmers. day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of
17 The bronze pillars that were in the house Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up
of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and
that were in the house of the LORD, the brought him out of prison. And he spoke
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Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all kindly to him and gave him a more prominent
their bronze to Babylon. They also took seat than those of the kings who were with
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away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the him in Babylon. So Jehoiachin changed from
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bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils his prison garments, and he ate bread regu-
with which the priests ministered. The larly before the king all the days of his life.
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basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the 34 And as for his provisions, there was a regular
lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, what- ration given him by the king of Babylon, a por-
ever was solid gold and whatever was solid tion for each day until the day of his death, all
silver, the captain of the guard took away. the days of his life.
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