Jeremiah 52:12-34 ▼

12 In the fifth month, on the tenth of the month—it was the ninth year and tenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, who served before the King of Babylon, into Jerusalem.

13 And He burned the house of YHWH, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem—and all the houses of the great he burned with fire.

14 And all the surrounding walls of Jerusalem they broke down—all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guards.

15 And of the poor of the people and the rest of the people remaining in the city, and and those falling away who had fallen to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guards carried into exile.

16 And of the poor of the land, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guards left behind, as vinedressers and as farmers.

17 And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of YHWH, and the carts, and the sea of bronze that was in the house of YHWH, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and they carried away all their bronze to Babylon.

18 And the pots, and the shovels, and the trimmers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away.

19 And the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the cups—that which was pure gold and that which was pure silver, the captain of the guards took away.

20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under it, and the carts that king Solomon had made for the house of YHWH. There was no weighing of the bronze of all these articles.

21 As to the pillars, eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a measuring line of twelve cubits could turn around it; its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.

22 A capital of bronze was upon it, and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze; and like these for the second pillar, with pomegranates.

23 The pomegranates were ninety-six on the side; all the pomegranates were a hundred on the lattice-work all around.

24 And the captain of the guards took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold.

25 And from the city he took a certain officer who had charge over the men of war, and seven men from those seeing the face of the king, who were found in the city; and the scribe of an official of the army, the one conscripting the people of the land; and sixty men from the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guards took these, and he brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

27 And the king of Babylon struck them, and he put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And Judah was carried away captive from his own land.

28 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: In the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty-two persons from Jerusalem;

30 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guards exiled seven hundred forty-five Jews; all the souls were four thousand and six hundred.

31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the two and tenth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, in the year of his becoming king that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and he brought him out of the house of imprisonment.

32 And he spoke to him kindly, and he set his seat above the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

33 And Jehoiachin changed the garments of his imprisonment, and he ate bread before his face continually all the days of his life.

34 And his ration was a regular ration given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for the day on each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.