34;
34 Day by day the king of Babylon
gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his
death. (7)
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26 Nebuzaradan
the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
(8)
27 There at Riblah, in
the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into
captivity, away from her land.
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17 The
Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea
that were at the temple of the Lord
and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. (8)
18 They also took away
the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and all the bronze
articles used in the temple service.
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8 but
the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in
the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, (8)
9 and he was captured.
He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he
pronounced sentence on him.
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30 in his twenty-third year, 745(7) Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the
imperial guard. There were 4,600 people in all.
Jehoiachin Released
31 In the thirty-seventh
year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became
king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released
Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.
32 He spoke kindly to
him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were
with him in Babylon.
33 So Jehoiachin put
aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the
king’s table.
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21 Each
pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference; each was
four fingers thick, and hollow.
(3)
22 The bronze capital on
top of one pillar was five cubits high and was decorated with a network and
pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was
similar.
23 There were
ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above
the surrounding network was a hundred.
24 The commander of
the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next
in rank and the three doorkeepers.
25 Of those still in
the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal
advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of
conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.
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12 On
the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of
Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
(3)
13 He set fire to the
temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the
houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
14 The whole
Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the
walls around Jerusalem.
15 Nebuzaradan the
commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those
who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen[d] and
those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.
16 But Nebuzaradan
left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards
and fields.
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3 It
was because of the Lord’s
anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust
them from his presence. Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of
Babylon. (3)
4 So in the ninth year
of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside
the city and built siege works all around it.
5 The city was kept
under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 By the ninth day of
the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no
food for the people to eat.
7 Then the city wall
was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night
through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the
Babylonians were surrounding the city. They fled toward
the Arabah,
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28 This
is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the
seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
(1)
29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth(18)
year, 832(4) people from Jerusalem;
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19 The
commander of the imperial guard took away the basins, censers, sprinkling
bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls used for drink offerings—all that
were made of pure gold or silver.
(1)
20 The bronze from the
two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable
stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, was more than could be weighed.
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10 There
at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he
also killed all the officials of Judah.
(1)
11 Then he put out
Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where
he put him in prison till the day of his death.
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The Fall of
Jerusalem
52 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of
Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
(1)
2 He did evil in the
eyes of the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done.
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