King James VersionJeremiah52

Jeremiah

1 Zedeki­ah was one and twen­ty years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamu­tal the daugh­ter of Jeremi­ah of Lib­nah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, ac­cord­ing to all that Je­hoiakim had done. 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Ju­dah, till he had cast them out from his pres­ence, that Zedeki­ah re­belled against the king of Baby­lon. 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Neb­uchadrez­zar king of Baby­lon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was be­sieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedeki­ah. 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the peo­ple of the land. 7 Then the city was bro­ken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate 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 Neb­uzaradan, cap­tain of the guard, which served the king of Baby­lon, into Jerusalem, 13 And burned the house of the LORD, 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 Neb­uzaradan 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 Neb­uzaradan 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 LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, 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 LORD: 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 Neb­uzaradan 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 car­ried away cap­tive out of his own land. 28 This is the peo­ple whom Neb­uchadrez­zar car­ried away cap­tive: in the sev­enth year three thou­sand Jews and three and twen­ty: 29 In the eigh­teenth year of Neb­uchadrez­zar he car­ried away cap­tive from Jerusalem eight hun­dred thir­ty and two per­sons: 30 In the three and twen­ti­eth year of Neb­uchadrez­zar Neb­uzaradan the cap­tain of the guard car­ried away cap­tive of the Jews sev­en hun­dred forty and five per­sons: all the per­sons were four thou­sand and six hun­dred. 31 And it came to pass in the sev­en and thir­ti­eth year of the cap­tiv­i­ty of Je­hoiachin king of Ju­dah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twen­ti­eth day of the month, that Evilmero­dach king of Baby­lon in the first year of his reign lift­ed up the head of Je­hoiachin king of Ju­dah, and brought him forth out of prison, 32 And spake kind­ly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Baby­lon, 33 And changed his prison gar­ments: and he did con­tin­u­al­ly eat bread be­fore him all the days of his life. 34 And for his di­et, there was a con­tin­u­al diet giv­en him of the king of Baby­lon, ev­ery day a por­tion un­til the day of his death, all the days of his life.