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In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it, and arranged around the shaft. |
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And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. |
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On the ninth day of the month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. |
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And the city was broken up, and [ran] all military night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the king's garden; The Chaldeans were around the city, and [the king] went the way toward the plain. |
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And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. |
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And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and produced his trial: |
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and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and [to] blinded Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
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In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon to Jerusalem, |
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and burned the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burned with fire; |
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and the wall around Jerusalem, destroyed the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard. |
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And the rest of the people that were left in the city, and that the king of Babylon, and other common people evicted Nebuzaradan. |
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Only a few of the poorest people of the land captain of the guard left the workers in the vineyard and husbandmen. |
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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 the brass of them to Babylon; |
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and the pots, and the shovels, and the knives, and spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, they took; |
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and the censers, and the bowls, that which was of gold, and that which was of silver, took the captain of the guard: |
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pillars [number] two, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made in the house of Jehovah, the brass of all these vessels was without weight. |
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Eighteen cubits the height of the one pillar; crown upon it was brass, and the height of the crown of three elbow, and the net and the pomegranates around the crown - all made of copper. The same applies to the second pillar of the grid. |
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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three who stood on guard at the threshold. |
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And from the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of the king's face, who were in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the city. |
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And he took them to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. |
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And he smote them the king of Babylon, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And Judah was carried away out of their land.
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For the people that remained in the land of Judah, who left Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, --Over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, ruler. |
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And when all the captains, they and their men, that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [namely] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumefa the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. |
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And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be servants of the Chaldeans, dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and you will be fine. |
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But in the seventh month Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and struck Gedaliah, and he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. |
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And all the people, both small and great, and the captains, and went to Egypt, because they were afraid of the Chaldeans. |
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In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the year of his accession, he brought Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; |
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and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; |
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And he changed his prison garments, and he did eat with him, all the days of his life. |
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And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day, all the days of his life. |
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