1In the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced with his whole army against Jerusalem, invested it, and erected siege-towers against it on every side;
2the siege lasted till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3In the fourth month of that year, on the ninth day of the month, when famine was severe in the city and there was no food for the people,
4the city capitulated. When King Zedekiah of Judah saw this, he and all his armed escort left the city and, fleeing by night through the gate called Between the Two Walls, near the king's garden, they made their escape towards the Arabah, although the Chaldaeans were surrounding the city.
5The Chaldaean army pursued the king and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho. His men all forsook him and scattered,
6and the king was captured and, having been brought before the king of Babylon at Riblah, he was put on trial and sentenced.
7Zedekiah's sons were slain before his eyes; then his eyes were put out, and he was brought to Babylon bound in bronze fetters.
8In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the king of Babylon's bodyguard, came to Jerusalem.
9He set fire to the house of the LORD and the royal palace, indeed all the houses in the city; every notable's house was burnt down.
10The whole Chaldaean force which was with the captain of the guard razed to the ground the walls on every side of Jerusalem.
11Nebuzaradan captain of the guard deported the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and any remaining artisans.
12He left only the poorest class of the people, to be vine-dressers and labourers.
13The Chaldaeans broke up the bronze pillars in the house of the LORD, the trolleys, and the bronze Sea, and took the metal to Babylon.
14They took also the pots, shovels, snuffers, saucers, and all the bronze vessels used in the service of the temple.
15The captain of the guard took away the precious metal, whether gold or silver, of which the firepans and the tossing-bowls were made.
16The bronze of the two pillars, the one Sea, and the trolleys, which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, was beyond weighing.
17One pillar was eighteen cubits high and its capital was bronze; the capital was three cubits high, and a decoration of network and pomegranates ran all round it, wholly of bronze. The other pillar, with its network, was exactly like it.
18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the deputy chief priest, and the three on duty at the entrance;
19he took also from the city a eunuch who was in charge of the fighting men, five of those with right of access to the king who were still in the city, the adjutant-general whose duty was to muster the people for war, and sixty men of the people who were still there.
20These Nebuzaradan captain of the guard brought to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
21There, in the land of Hamath, the king had them flogged and put to death. So Judah went into exile from her own land.
22King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor over the people whom he had left in Judah.
23When the captains of the armed bands and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they all gathered to him at Mizpah: Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth of Netophah, and Jaazaniah of Beth-maacah.
24Gedaliah gave them and their men this assurance: “Have no fear of the Chaldaean officers. Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon; and all will be well with you.”
25But in the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal house, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and the Jews and Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah.
26Thereupon all the people, high and low, and the captains of the armed forces, fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldaeans.
27In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon in the year of his accession showed favour to King Jehoiachin. He released him from prison,
28treated him kindly, and gave him a seat at table above the kings with him in Babylon.
29Jehoiachin, discarding his prison clothes, lived as a pensioner of the king for the rest of his life.
30For his maintenance as long as he lived a regular daily allowance was given him by the king.
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