2 Kings 25:1-21 ▼

1 And it will be in the ninth year to his reigning, in the tenth month, in the tenth to the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel came, he, and all his strength, against Jerusalem, and he will encamp against it, and build a watch tower against her round about.

2 And the city will go into siege till the eleventh year to king Zedekiah.

3 In the ninth to the month and the famine will be strong in the city, and there was not bread for the people of the land.

4 And the city will be broken up, and all the men of war by night the way of the gate between the walls by the king's garden: (and the Chaldees against the city round about;) and he will go the way of the sterile region.

5 And the strength of the Chaldees will pursue after the king, and they will overtake him in the sterile region of Jericho: and all his strength was scattered from him.

6 And they will seize the king and bring him up to the king of Babel to Riblah; and they will speak judgment with him.

7 And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and he will bind him with fetters, and bring him to Babel.

8 And in the fifth month, in the seventh to the month, (this year the nineteenth year to king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel,) came Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, servant of the king of Babel, to Jerusalem.

9 And he will burn the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt in fire.

10 And the walls of Jerusalem round about, all the strength of the Chaldees which were with the chief of the cooks brake down.

11 And the rest of the people being left in the city, and those falling away which fell to the king of Babel, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan chief of the cooks carried into exile.

12 And of the powerless of the land the chief of the cooks left for vine-dressers and for ploughers.

13 And the pillars of brass which were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which were in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldees brake in pieces, and they will lift up their brass into Babel.

14 And the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes, and all the vessels of brass which they served in them, they took.

15 And the fire pans and the vases which were of gold, gold, and which were of silver, silver, the chief of the cooks took.

16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases which Solomon made for the house of Jehovah; there was no weight to the brass of these vessels.

17 Eighteen cubits the height of the one pillar, and the capital upon it of brass: and the height of the capital, three cubits; and the net and the pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass; and according to these for the second pillar upon the net.

18 And the chief of the cooks will take Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three watchers of the threshold:

19 And out of the city he took one eunuch, he who was appointed over the men of war, and five men seeing the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army mustering the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city:

20 And Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, will take them and bring them to the king of Babel to Riblah:

21 And the king of Babel will strike them and kill them in Riblah in the land of Hamath; and Judah will be carried into exile from their land.