Jeremiah 52

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1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; His mother's name - was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, all that Jehoiakim had done;
3 therefore the anger of Jehovah was against Jerusalem and Judah until he had cast them out of his sight; Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it was in his reign the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built around the mound.
5 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 In the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 A breach was made in the city, and all the military fled and went out of the city gates at night, between the two walls, by the king's garden, and went way of the; The Chaldeans were around the city.
8 Army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
9 And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and all the princes of Judah in Riblah stabbed.
eleven And he put out Zedekiah's eyes and told bound him with fetters of copper; and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison till the day of his death.

12 In the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, --eto was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, --prishel Nebuzaradan, the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem
13 and he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
15 The poorest of the people and the rest of the people that were left in the city, and that the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the common people Nebuzaradan, evicted.
16 Only a few of the poor of the land Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left for vineyards and agriculture.
17 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18 And the pots, and the shovels, and the knives, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they
19 and food, and the tongs, and the bowls, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold - gold, and what was of silver - silver, took the captain of the guard;
20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of Jehovah, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21 These pillars of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness of its hollow was four fingers.
22 And a crown of brass on it, and the crown height was five cubits; and the net and the pomegranates around, all of brass; However, at the other pole of pomegranates.
23 Pomegranates on all sides of the ninety-six; all the pomegranates around the network were an hundred.

24 Captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.
25 And from the city he took an officer who was captain over the men of war, and seven men of the king's person, who were in the city, and the scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of found in the city of the people of the country.
26 And he took them to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27 And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; and Judah was evicted from their land.
28 This is the people that Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Judah;
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar from Jerusalem [expelled] eight hundred thirty-two soul;
thirty in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, carried into exile the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: a total of four thousand and six hundred.

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign, lifted up Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and brought him out of prison.
32 And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
33 of prison and changed his clothes, and he always dined with him all the days of his life.
34 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, day after day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

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