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between the two walls, which
was
by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans
were
by the city round
about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
8
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
9
Then they took the king, and carried him up
unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
10
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes
of Judah in Riblah.
11
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him
in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth
day
of the month, which
was
the nineteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard,
which
served the king
of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
13
And burned the house of the L
ORD
, and the king’s house; and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great
men,
burned he with fire:
14
And all the army
of the Chaldeans, that
were
with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem
round about.
15
Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive
certain
of the
poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away,
that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of
the guard left
certain
of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
17
Also 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
, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18
The caldrons
also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away.
19
And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls,
and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups;
that
which
was
of gold
in
gold, and
that
which
was
of silver
in
silver, took the captain of the guard away.
20
The two pillars,
one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that
were
under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the
house of the L
ORD
: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21
And
concerning
the pillars,
the height of one pillar
was
eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the
thickness thereof
was
four fingers:
it was
hollow.
22
And a chapiter of brass
was
upon it; and the
height of one chapiter
was
five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round
about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates
were
like unto these.
23
And there
were ninety and six pomegranates on a side;
and
all the pomegranates upon the network
were
an
hundred round about.
24
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,
and the three keepers of the door:
25
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge
of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in
the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore
men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
26
So Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27
And the king
of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was
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