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 around it. {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 severe 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 Kasdim were against the city around it); and the king
went by the way of the Arabah. {25:5} But the army of the Kasdim
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 the LORD, 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 Kasdim, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down
the walls around Jerusalem. {25:11} Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive 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. {25:12} But the captain of the guard
left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
{25:13} The Kasdim broke up the pillars of brass that were in the
house of the LORD and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the
house of the LORD, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon. {25:14}
They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and
all the vessels of brass with which they ministered. {25:15} The
captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which
was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver. {25:16}
The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made
for the house of the LORD, 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 around it, 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 Yochanan 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 Kasdim. 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
Kasdim 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 Kasdim. {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,
lifted 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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