The Second Book of Kings, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} It happened 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 army, against Jerusalem, and encamped
against it; and they built forts against it round about. {25:2} So the
city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {25:3} On the
ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so
that there was no bread for the people of the land. {25:4} Then a
breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by
the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's
garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the
king] went by the way of the Arabah. {25:5} But 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. {25:6} Then they
took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
and they gave judgment on him. {25:7} They killed the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in
fetters, and carried him to Babylon. {25:8} Now in the fifth month, on
the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem. {25:9} He burnt
the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of
Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire. {25:10} All the
army of the Chaldeans, who were [with] the captain of the guard, broke
down the walls of Jerusalem round about. {25:11} The residue of the
people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to
the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carry away captive. {25:12} But the captain
of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and
fields. {25:13} The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh,
and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did
the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
Babylon. {25:14} The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took
they away. {25:15} The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of
gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of
the guard took away. {25:16} The two pillars, the one sea, and the
bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of
all these vessels was without weight. {25:17} The height of the one
pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the
height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates
on the capital round about, all of brass: and like to these had the
second pillar with network. {25:18} The captain of the guard took
Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the
three keepers of the threshold: {25:19} and out of the city he took an
officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw
the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the
captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty
men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. {25:20}
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah. {25:21} The king of Babylon struck
them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah
was carried away captive out of his land. {25:22} As for the people
who were left 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, governor. {25:23} Now when all the captains of the
forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son
of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the
Maacathite, they and their men. {25:24} Gedaliah swore to them and to
their men, and said to them, Don't be afraid because of the servants
of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,
and it shall be well with you. {25:25} But it happened in the seventh
month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the
royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he
died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
{25:26} All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the
forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the
Chaldeans. {25:27} It happened 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; {25:28} and he spoke kindly to
him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with
him in Babylon, {25:29} and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin]
ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: {25:30} and
for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the
king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
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