Dual Panel1Zedekiah <06667> was twenty-one <0259> <06242> years <08141> old <01121> when he became king <04427>, and he ruled <04427> in Jerusalem <03389> for eleven <06240> <0259> years <08141>. His mother’s <0517> name <08034> was Hamutal <02537> daughter <01323> of Jeremiah <03414>, from Libnah <03841>.
2He did <06213> what displeased <05869> <07451> the Lord <03068> just as <0834> Jehoiakim <03079> had done <06213>.
3What follows is a record of what happened <01961> to Jerusalem <03389> and Judah <03063> because of <05921> <03588> the Lord’s <03068> anger <0639> when <05704> he drove <07993> them out <07993> of <05921> his sight <06440>. Zedekiah <06667> rebelled <04775> against the king <04428> of Babylon <0894>.
4King <04428> Nebuchadnezzar <05019> of Babylon <0894> came against <05921> Jerusalem <03389> with his whole <03605> army <02428> and set up camp <02583> outside <05921> 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> that Zedekiah ruled over <04427> Judah.
5The city <05892> remained <0935> under siege <04692> until <05704> Zedekiah’s <06667> eleventh <06240> <06249> year <08141>.
6By the ninth <08672> day <02320> of the fourth <07243> month <02320> the famine <07458> in the city <05892> was so severe <02388> the residents <0776> <05971> had <01961> no <03808> food <03899>.
7They broke <01234> through the city <05892> walls, and all <03605> the soldiers <04421> <0376> tried to escape <01272>. They left <03318> the city <05892> 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> had the city <05892> surrounded <05439>.) Then they headed <01980> for <01870> the Jordan Valley <06160>.
8But the Babylonian <03778> army <02428> chased <07291> after <0310> the king <04428>. They caught up <05381> with Zedekiah <06667> in the plains <06160> of Jericho <03405>, and his entire <03605> army <02428> deserted <06327> him.
9They captured <08610> him <04428> and brought <05927> him up <05927> to <0413> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894> at Riblah <07247> in the territory <0776> of Hamath <02574> and he passed <01696> sentence <04941> on <0854> him there.
10The king <04428> of Babylon <0894> had Zedekiah’s sons <01121> put to death <07819> while Zedekiah <06667> was forced to watch <05869>. He also <01571> had all <03605> the nobles <08269> of Judah <03063> put to death <07819> there at Riblah <07247>.
11He had Zedekiah’s <06667> eyes <05869> put out <05786> and had him bound <0631> in chains <05178>. Then the king <04428> of Babylon <0894> had him led <05414> off to Babylon <0894> and he was imprisoned <01004> there until <05704> the day <03117> he died <04194>.
12On the tenth <06218> day <02320> of the fifth <02549> month <02320>, in the nineteenth <06240> <08672> year <08141> <08141> of King <04428> Nebuchadnezzar <05019> of Babylon <0894>, Nebuzaradan <05018>, the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> who served <06440> <05975> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894>, arrived <0935> in Jerusalem <03389>.
13He 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>.
14The whole <03605> Babylonian <03778> army <02428> that <0834> came with <0854> the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> tore down <05422> the walls <02346> that surrounded <05439> Jerusalem <03389>.
15Nebuzaradan <05018>, the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876>, took into exile <01540> some <05971> of the poor <01803>, the rest <03499> of the people <05971> who remained <07604> in the city <05892>, those who had deserted <05307> to him, and the <0853> rest <03499> of the craftsmen <0527>.
16But he left behind <07604> some of the poor <01803> and gave them fields <03009> and vineyards <03755>.
17The Babylonians <03778> broke <07665> the two bronze <05178> pillars <05982> in the temple <01004> of the Lord <03068>, as well as the movable stands <04350> and the large bronze <05178> basin called the “The Sea <03220>.” They took <05375> all <03605> the bronze <05178> to Babylon <0894>.
18They also took <03947> the pots <05518>, shovels <03257>, trimming shears <04212>, basins <04219>, pans <03709>, and all <03605> the bronze <05178> utensils <03627> used by the priests <08334>.
19The captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> took <03947> the gold <02091> <02091> and silver <03701> <03701> bowls <05592>, censers <04289>, basins <04219>, pots <05518>, lampstands <04501>, pans <03709>, and vessels <04518>.
20The bronze <05178> of the items <03627> that <0834> King <04428> Solomon <08010> made <06213> for the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> (including the two <08147> pillars <05982>, the large bronze basin called “The Sea <03220>,” the twelve <06240> bronze <05178> bulls <01241> under <08478> “The Sea,” and the movable stands <04350>) was too heavy to be <01961> weighed <04948>.
21Each of the pillars <05982> was about 27 feet <0520> <06240> <08083> high <06967>, about 18 feet <0520> <06240> <08147> in circumference <05437>, three <0702> inches <0676> thick <05672>, and hollow <05014>.
22The bronze <05178> top of <03805> one <0259> pillar <03805> was about seven and one-half feet <0520> <02568> 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 its pomegranate-shaped <07416> ornaments was like it <0428>.
23There were <01961> ninety-six <08337> <08673> pomegranate-shaped ornaments <07416> on the sides <07307>; in all <03605> there were one hundred <03967> pomegranate-shaped ornaments <07416> over <05921> the latticework <07639> that went around <05439> it.
24The captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876> took <03947> Seraiah <08304> the chief <07218> priest <03548>, Zephaniah <06846> the priest <03548> who was second <04932> in rank, and the three <07969> doorkeepers <05592> <08104>.
25From <04480> the city <05892> he took <03947> an official <05631> who <0834> was in charge of <06496> the soldiers <04421> <0582>, seven <07651> of the king’s <04428> advisers <06440> <07200> <0582> who <0834> were discovered <04672> in the <0853> city <05892>, an official <08269> army <06635> secretary <05608> who drafted <06633> citizens <0776> <05971> for military service, and sixty <08346> citizens <0776> <05971> who were discovered <04672> in the middle <08432> of the city <05892>.
26Nebuzaradan <05018>, the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876>, took <03947> them and brought <01980> them to <0413> the king <04428> of Babylon <0894> at Riblah <07247>.
27The king <04428> of Babylon <0894> ordered <05221> them to be executed <04191> at Riblah <07247> in the territory <0776> of Hamath <02574>. So Judah <03063> was taken into exile away <01540> from <05921> its land <0127>.
28Here <02088> is the official record of the number of people <05971> Nebuchadnezzar <05019> carried into exile <01540>: In the seventh <07651> year <08141>, 3,023 <07969> <06242> <0505> <07969> Jews <03064>;
29in Nebuchadnezzar’s <05019> eighteenth <06240> <08083> year <08141>, 832 <08147> <07970> <03967> <08083> people <05315> from Jerusalem <03389>;
30in Nebuchadnezzar’s <05019> twenty-third <06242> <07969> year <08141>, Nebuzaradan <05018>, the captain <07227> of the royal guard <02876>, carried into exile <01540> 745 <02568> <0705> <03967> <07651> Judeans <03064>. In all <03605> 4,600 <03967> <08337> <0505> <0702> people <05315> went into exile.
31In the thirty-seventh <07651> <07970> year <08141> of the exile <01546> of King <04428> Jehoiachin <03078> of Judah <03063>, on the twenty-fifth <02568> <06242> day of the twelfth <06240> <08147> month <02320>, Evil-Merodach <0192>, in the first year <08141> of his reign <04438>, pardoned <07218> King <04428> Jehoiachin <03078> of Judah <03063> and released <03318> him from prison <03628>.
32He spoke <01696> kindly <02896> to him and gave <05414> him a more prestigious <03678> position <03678> than <04605> the other kings <04428> who <0834> were with <0854> him in Babylon <0894>.
33Jehoiachin took off <08138> 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>.
34He was given <05414> daily <08548> provisions <0737> <0737> by the king <04428> of Babylon <0894> for the rest of his life until <05704> the day <03117> he died <04194>.