Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Jeremiah:
Chapter 52
1. ZED-E-KI-AH
was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Ha-mu-tal the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2. And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to
all that Je-hoi-a-kim had done.
3. For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zed-e-ki-ah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month, that Neb-u-chad-rez-zar king of
Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched
against it, and built forts against it round about.
5. So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zed-e-ki-ah.
6. And 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.
7. Then the city was broken up, 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 Chal-de-ans were by the
city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
8. But the army of the Chal-de-ans pursued after the king, and overtook
Zed-e-ki-ah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered
from him.
9. Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon
to Riblah in the land of Ha-math; where he gave judgment upon him.
10. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zed-e-ki-ah before his
eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11. Then he put out the eyes of Zed-e-ki-ah; and the king of Babylon
bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison
till the day of his death.
12. Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the
nineteenth year of Neb-u-chad-rez-zar king of Babylon, came Neb-u-zar-ad-an,
captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.
13. And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with
fire.
14. And all the army of the Chal-de-ans, that were with the captain of
the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
15. Then Neb-u-zar-ad-an the captain of the guard carried away captive
certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that
remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of
Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16. But Neb-u-zar-ad-an the captain of the guard left certain of the
poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
17. Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and
the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the
Chal-de-ans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18. The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls,
and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,
took they away.
19. And the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons,
and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of
gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain
of the guard away.
20. The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under
the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the
brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21. And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen
cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness
thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
22. And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter
was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round
about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates
were like unto these.
23. And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the
pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
24. And the captain of the guard took Se-rai-ah the chief priest, and
Zeph-a-ni-ah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25. He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the
men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person,
which were found in the city; and the principal scribe 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.
26. So Neb-u-zar-ad-an the captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27. And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah
in the land of Ha-math. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of
his own land.
28. This is the people whom Neb-u-chad-rez-zar carried away captive: in
the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29. In the eighteenth year of Neb-u-chad-rez-zar he carried away captive
from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
30. In the three and twentieth year of Neb-u-chad-rez-zar Neb-u-zar-ad-an
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 Je-hoi-a-chin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and
twentieth day of the month, that E-vil-mer-o-dach 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,
32. And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of
the kings that were with him in Babylon,
33. And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread
before him all the days of his life.
34. And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king
of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days
of his life.
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