[[Jeremiah 51|<< Jeremiah 51]] | [[Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] | [[Lamentations 1|Lamentations 1 >>]] ### Jeremiah 52 1 ZEDEKIAH _was_ twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name _was_ Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^1 2 And he did _that_ _which_ _was_ evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. ^2 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 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. ^3 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_ Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. ^4 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ^5 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. ^6 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 Chaldeans _were_ by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. ^7 8 ¶ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. ^8 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. ^9 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. ^10 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; 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. ^11 12 ¶ Now in the fifth month, in the tenth _day_ of the month, which _was_ the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, _which_ served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, ^12 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: ^13 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that _were_ with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. ^14 15 Then Nebuzar-adan 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. ^15 16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left _certain_ of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. ^16 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 Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. ^17 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. ^18 19 And the basons, 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. ^19 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. ^20 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. ^21 22 And a capital of brass _was_ upon it; and the height of one capital _was_ five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capitals round about, all _of_ brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates _were_ like unto these. ^22 23 And there were ninety-six pomegranates on a side; _and_ all the pomegranates upon the network _were_ a hundred round about. ^23 24 ¶ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: ^24 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 sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. ^25 26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. ^26 27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land. ^27 28 This _is_ the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and twenty-three: ^28 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons: ^29 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons _were_ four thousand six hundred. ^30 31 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth _day_ of the month, _that_ Evil-merodach 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, ^31 32 And spoke kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that _were_ with him in Babylon, ^32 33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. ^33 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. ^34