- 1
- So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month,
- Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army.
- He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.
- 2
- The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
- 3
- By the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine in the city had become
- so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
- 4
- Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night
- through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden,
- though the Babylonians were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,
- 5
- but the Babylonian army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of
- Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,
- 6
- and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah,
- where sentence was pronounced on him.
- 7
- They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes.
- Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and
- took him to Babylon.
- 8
- On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of
- Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard,
- an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
- 9
- He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and
- all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
- 10
- The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard,
- broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
- 11
- Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people
- who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those
- who had gone over to the king of Babylon.
- 12
- But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land
- to work the vineyards and fields.
- 13
- The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea
- that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
- 14
- They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers,
- dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.
- 15
- The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers
- and sprinkling bowls--all that were made of pure gold or silver.
- 16
- The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands,
- which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD,
- was more than could be weighed.
- 17
- Each pillar was twenty-seven feet high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was
- four and a half feet high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of
- bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.
- 18
- The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest,
- Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.
- 19
- Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men
- and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer
- in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of his men
- who were found in the city.
- 20
- Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them
- to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
- 21
- There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.
- So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
- 22
- Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam,
- the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.
- 23
- When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon
- had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah--
- Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth
- the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, and their men.
- 24
- Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men.
- "Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials," he said.
- "Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you."
- 25
- In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama,
- who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and
- also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
- 26
- At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together with
- the army officers, fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians.
- 27
- In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah,
- in the year Evil-Merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin
- from prison on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.
- 28
- He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than
- those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
- 29
- So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and
- for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king's table.
- 30
- Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.
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