Dual Panel1So <01961> King <04428> Nebuchadnezzar <05019> of Babylon <0894> came against <05921> Jerusalem <03389> with his whole <03605> army <02428> and set up camp <02583> outside it. They built <01129> siege ramps <01785> all around <05439> it. He arrived <0935> on the tenth <06218> day of the tenth <06224> month <02320> in the ninth <08671> year <08141> of Zedekiah’s reign <04427>.
2The city <05892> remained <0935> under siege <04692> until <05704> King <04428> Zedekiah’s <06667> eleventh <06240> <06249> year <08141>.
3By the ninth <08672> day of the fourth month <02320> the famine <07458> in the city <05892> was <01961> so severe <02388> the residents <0776> <05971> had no <03808> food <03899>.
4The enemy broke <01234> through the city <05892> walls, and all <03605> the soldiers <04421> <0376> tried to escape. They left the city during the night <03915>. They went through <01870> the gate <08179> between <0996> the two walls <02346> that <0834> is near <05921> the king’s <04428> garden <01588>. (The Babylonians <03778> were all around <05439> the city <05892>.) Then they headed <01980> for the Jordan Valley <06160>.
5But the Babylonian <03778> army <02428> chased <07291> after <0310> the king <04428>. They caught up <05381> with him in the plains <06160> of Jericho <03405>, and his entire <03605> army <02428> deserted <06327> him.
6They captured <08610> the king <04428> and brought <05927> him up <05927> to <0413> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894> at Riblah <07247>, where he passed <01696> sentence <04941> on <0854> him.
7Zedekiah’s sons <01121> were executed <07819> while Zedekiah <06667> was forced to watch <05869>. The king of Babylon then had Zedekiah’s <06667> eyes <05869> put out <05786>, bound <0631> him in bronze <05178> chains, and carried <0935> him off <0935> to Babylon <0894>.
8On the seventh <07651> day of the fifth <02549> month <02320>, in the nineteenth <06240> <08672> <08141> year <08141> of King <04428> Nebuchadnezzar <05019> of Babylon <0894>, Nebuzaradan <05018>, the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> who served <05650> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894>, arrived <0935> in Jerusalem <03389>.
9He burned down <08313> the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>, the royal <04428> palace <01004>, and all <03605> the houses <01004> in Jerusalem <03389>, including every <03605> large <01419> house <01004>.
10The whole <03605> Babylonian <03778> army <02428> that <0834> came with the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> tore down <05422> the walls <02346> that surrounded <05439> Jerusalem <03389>.
11Nebuzaradan <05018>, the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876>, deported <01540> the rest <03499> of the people <05971> who were left <07604> in the city <05892>, those who <0834> had deserted <05307> to <05921> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894>, and the rest <03499> of the craftsmen <01995>.
12But he left behind <07604> some of the poor <01803> of the land <0776> and gave them fields <01461> and vineyards <03755>.
13The Babylonians <03778> broke <07665> the two bronze <05178> pillars <05982> in the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>, as well as the movable stands <04350> and the big bronze <05178> basin called the “The Sea <03220>.” They took <05375> the bronze <05178> to Babylon <0894>.
14They also took <03947> the pots <05518>, shovels <03257>, trimming shears <04212>, pans <03709>, and all <03605> the bronze <05178> utensils <03627> used by the priests <08334>.
15The captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> took <03947> the golden <02091> and silver <03701> <03701> censers <04289> and basins <04219>.
16The bronze <05178> of the items <03627> that King Solomon <08010> made <06213> for the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>– including the two <08147> pillars <05982>, the big bronze basin called “The Sea <03220>,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” and the movable stands <04350>– was too heavy to be <01961> weighed <04948>.
17Each of the pillars <05982> was about twenty-seven feet <0520> <06240> <08083> high <06967>. The bronze <05178> top <05921> of one <0259> pillar <03805> was about four and a half feet <0520> <07969> high <06967> and had bronze <05178> latticework <07639> and pomegranate shaped <07416> ornaments <03805> all <03605> around <05439> it. The second <08145> pillar <05982> with <05921> its latticework <07639> was like it <0428>.
18The captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> took <03947> Seraiah <08304> the chief <07218> priest <03548> and Zephaniah <06846>, the priest <03548> who was second <04932> in rank, and the three <07969> doorkeepers <05592> <08104>.
19From <04480> the city <05892> he took <03947> a eunuch <05631> who <0834> was in charge of <06496> the soldiers <04421> <0582>, five <02568> of the king’s <04428> advisers <06440> <07200> <0582> who <0834> were discovered <04672> in the city <05892>, an official <08269> army <06635> secretary <05608> who drafted <06633> citizens <0776> <05971> for military service <06633>, and sixty <08346> citizens <0376> from the people <05971> of the land <0776> who were discovered <04672> in the city <05892>.
20Nebuzaradan <05018>, captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876>, took <03947> them and brought <01980> them to <05921> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894> at Riblah <07247>.
21The king <04428> of Babylon <0894> ordered them to be executed <04191> <05221> at Riblah <07247> in the territory <0776> of Hamath <02574>. So Judah <03063> was deported <01540> from <05921> its land <0127>.
22Now King <04428> Nebuchadnezzar <05019> of Babylon <0894> appointed <06485> Gedaliah <01436> son <01121> of Ahikam <0296>, son <01121> of Shaphan <08227>, as governor over <05921> the people <05971> whom <0834> he allowed <07604> to remain <07604> in the land <0776> of Judah <03063>.
23All <03605> of the officers <08269> of the Judahite army <02428> and their <01992> troops <0376> heard <08085> that <03588> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894> had appointed <06485> Gedaliah <01436> to govern. So they came <0935> to <0413> Gedaliah <01436> at Mizpah <04709>. The officers who came were Ishmael <03458> son <01121> of Nethaniah <05418>, Johanan <03110> son <01121> of Kareah <07143>, Seraiah <08304> son <01121> of Tanhumeth <08576> the Netophathite <05200>, and Jaazaniah <02970> son <01121> of the Maacathite <04602>.
24Gedaliah <01436> took an oath <07650> so as to give them and their troops <0376> some assurance of safety. He said <0559>, “You don’t <0408> need to be afraid <03372> to submit to the Babylonian <03778> officials <05650>. Settle down <03427> in the land <0776> and submit <05647> to the king <04428> of Babylon <0894>. Then things will go well <03190> for you.”
25But in the seventh <07637> month <02320> Ishmael <03458> son <01121> of Nethaniah <05418>, son <01121> of Elishama <0476>, who was a member of the royal <04410> family <02233>, came <0935> with <0854> ten <06235> of his men <0376> and murdered <05221> Gedaliah <01436>, as well as the Judeans <03064> and Babylonians <03778> who <0834> were <01961> with <0854> him at Mizpah <04709>.
26Then all <03605> the people <05971>, from the youngest <06996> to <05704> the oldest <01419>, as well as the army <02428> officers <08269>, left <0935> for Egypt <04714>, because <03588> they were afraid <03372> of <06440> what the Babylonians <03778> might do.
27In the thirty-seventh <07651> <07970> year <08141> of the exile <01546> of King <04428> Jehoiachin <03078> of Judah <03063>, on the twenty-seventh <07651> <06242> day of the twelfth <06240> <08147> month <02320>, King <04428> Evil-Merodach <0192> of Babylon <0894>, in the first year <08141> of his reign <04427>, pardoned <05375> King <04428> Jehoiachin <03078> of Judah <03063> and released him from prison <03608> <01004>.
28He spoke <01696> kindly <02896> to <0854> him and gave <05414> him a more <05921> prestigious <03678> position <03678> than <05921> the other kings <04428> who <0834> were with <0854> him in Babylon <0894>.
29Jehoiachin took off <08132> his prison <03608> clothes <0899> and ate <0398> daily <08548> in the king’s presence <06440> for the rest <03117> <03605> of his life <02416>.
30He was given <05414> daily <08548> provisions <0737> <0737> by the king <04428> for the rest of his life <02416> until the day <03117> he died.