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against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh
year of king Zedekiah.
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.
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.
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.
6
So they took
the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
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.
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 Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king
of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9
And he burnt the house of the L
ORD
, and the king’s house, and all
the houses of Jerusalem, and every great
man’s
house burnt he with fire.
10
And all the army of the
Chaldees, that
were with
the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
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 Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry
away.
12
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
to be
vinedressers and husbandmen.
13
And the pillars of brass that
were
in the house of the L
ORD
, and the bases, and the brasen sea that
was
in the house of the L
ORD
, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
Babylon.
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.
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.
16
The
two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the L
ORD
; the brass
of all these vessels was without weight.
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.
18
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,
and the three keepers of the door:
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:
20
And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
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.
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.
23
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had
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