2KI-25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in

the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,

against Jerusalem, and pitched against it: and they built forts

against it round about.

2KI-25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of

king Zedekiah.

2KI-25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine

prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of

the land.

2KI-25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war

[fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which

[is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the

city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.

2KI-25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king,

and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were

scattered from him.

2KI-25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king

of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

2KI-25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and

put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of

brass, and carried him to Babylon.

2KI-25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the

month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar

king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a

servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

2KI-25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's

house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's]

house burnt he with fire.

2KI-25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the

captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round

about.

2KI-25:11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the

city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon,

with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain

of the guard carry away.

2KI-25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the

land [to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.

2KI-25:13 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, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried

the brass of them to Babylon.

2KI-25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and

the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they

ministered, took they away.

2KI-25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, [and] such things as

[were] of gold, [in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the

captain of the guard took away.

2KI-25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon

had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these

vessels was without weight.

2KI-25:17 The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits,

and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the

chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates

upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these

had the second pillar with wreathen work.

2KI-25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief

priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers

of the door:

2KI-25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set

over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the

king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal

scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and

threescore men of the people of the land [that were] found in

the city:

2KI-25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and

brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

2KI-25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at

Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of

their land.

2KI-25:22 And [as for] the people that remained in the land of

Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over

them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,

ruler.

2KI-25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and

their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah

governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son

of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son

of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a

Maachathite, they and their men.

2KI-25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said

unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in

the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well

with you.

2KI-25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael

the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal,

came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died,

and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

2KI-25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the

captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were

afraid of the Chaldees.

2KI-25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of

the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,

on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that]

Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign

did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

2KI-25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above

the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;

2KI-25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread

continually before him all the days of his life.

2KI-25:30 And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given

him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his

life.

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