2 Kings 25
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1 And it came to pass 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 host,
against Jerusalem, and pitched 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 Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a
servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, 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 Nebuzaradan 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 LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in
the house of the LORD, 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 LORD; 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 Nebuzaradan 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 made Gedaliah
governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the
Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to
their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25 But it came to pass in the seventh
month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed
royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the
Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
26 And all the people, both small and
great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were
afraid of the Chaldees.
27 And it came to pass 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 did lift up the
head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his
throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
29 And changed his prison garments: and he
did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
30 And his allowance was a
continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the
days of his life.
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