The fall of Jerusalem
1ZEDEKIAH was twenty-one years old when he came to the throne, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
2Zedekiah did what was wrong in the eyes of the LORD, as Jehoiakim had done.
3Jerusalem and Judah so angered the LORD that in the end he banished them from his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4In the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon advanced with his whole army against Jerusalem, invested it, and erected siege-towers against it on every side;
5the siege lasted till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6In the fourth month of that year, on the ninth day of the month, while famine raged in the city and there was no food for the people,
7the city capitulated. When King Zedekiah of Judah saw this, he and all his armed escort left the city by night and, fleeing through the gate called Between the Two Walls near the king's garden, they made their way towards the Arabah, although the Chaldaeans were surrounding the city.
8The Chaldaean soldiers set off in pursuit and overtook King Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho; his men had all abandoned him and scattered.
9Zedekiah, when captured, was brought before the king of Babylon at Riblah in the territory of Hamath, where sentence was passed on him.
10The king of Babylon had Zedekiah's sons slain before his eyes; he also put to death all the princes of Judah at Riblah.
11Then Zedekiah's eyes were blinded, and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon, where he committed him to prison till the day of his death.
12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the king of Babylon's bodyguard, came to Jerusalem,
13and set fire to the house of the LORD and the royal palace, indeed all the houses in the city; every notable person's house was burnt down.
14The whole Chaldaean force under the captain of the guard pulled down all the walls encircling Jerusalem.
15Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, deported the rest of the people left in the city, those who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the remaining artisans.
16He left behind only the poorest class of people, to be vine-dressers and labourers.
17The Chaldaeans broke up the bronze pillars in the house of the LORD, the trolleys, and the bronze Sea, and carried off all the metal to Babylon.
18They removed also the pots, shovels, snuffers, tossing-bowls, saucers, and all the bronze vessels used in the service of the temple.
19The captain of the guard took away the precious metal, whether gold or silver, of which the cups, firepans, tossing-bowls, pots, lampstands, saucers, and flagons were made.
20The bronze of the two pillars, of the one Sea, and of the twelve oxen supporting it, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, was beyond weighing.
21One pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference; it was hollow, but the metal was four fingers thick.
22It had a capital of bronze, five cubits high, and a decoration of network and pomegranates ran all round it, wholly of bronze. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was exactly like it.
23Ninety-six pomegranates were exposed to view and there were a hundred in all on the network all round.
24The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the deputy chief priest, and the three on duty at the entrance;
25he took also from the city a eunuch who was in charge of the fighting men, seven of those with right of access to the king who were still in the city, the adjutant-general whose duty was to muster the army for war, and sixty men of the people who were still there.
26These Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, brought to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27There, in the land of Hamath, the king had them flogged and put to death. So Judah went into exile from its own land.
28These were the people deported by Nebuchadrezzar in the seventh year of his reign: three thousand and twenty-three Judaeans.
29In the eighteenth year, eight hundred and thirty-two people from Jerusalem;
30in the twenty-third year, seven hundred and forty-five Judaeans were deported by Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard: in all four thousand six hundred people.
31In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon in the year of his accession showed favour to King Jehoiachin of Judah. He released him from prison,
32treated him kindly, and gave him a seat at table above the kings with him in Babylon.
33Jehoiachin, discarding his prison clothes, lived as a pensioner of the king for the rest of his life.
34For his maintenance a regular daily allowance was given him by the king of Babylon to the day of his death.
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