Jeremiah 52
1 It was the twenty-first year of
Sedekias, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremiah, of Lobena.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth
year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month,
that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his
host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall
round about it with large stones.
5 So the city was besieged, until the
eleventh year of king Sedekias, 6 on
the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was
severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 And the city was broken up, and all
the men of war went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and
the outworks, which were by the king's garden; and the Chaldeans were by the
city round about; and they went by the way leading to
the wilderness. 8 But the host of the
Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the
country beyond Jericho; and all his servants were
dispersed from about him.
9 And they took the king, and brought
him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he judged him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the
sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Juda in
Deblatha. 11 And he put out the eyes
of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to
Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.
12 And in the fifth month, on the
tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the
king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
13 and he burnt the house of the
Lord, and the king's house; and all the houses of the city, and every great
house he burnt with fire. 14 And the
host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all
the wall of Jerusalem round about.
16 But the captain of the guard left
the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
17 And the Chaldeans broke in pieces
the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the
brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof,
and carried it away to Babylon.
18 Also the rim, and the bowls, and
the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith they ministered;
19 and the basons, and the snuffers,
and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the
golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took
away. 20 And the two pillars, and the
one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the sea, which
things king Solomon made for the house of the Lord;
the brass of which articles was without weight.
21 And as for the pillars, the height
of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it
round; and the thickness of it all round was four
fingers. 22 And
there was a brazen chapiter upon them, and the length
was five cubits, even the height of one chapiter; and
there were on the chapiter round about network and
pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly the second pillar
had eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve
cubits. 23 And the pomegranates were
ninety-six on a side; and all the pomegranates on the network round about were
a hundred.
24 And the captain of the guard took
the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;
25 and one eunuch, who was over the
men of war, and seven men of renown, who were in the king's presence, that
were found in the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a
scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who
were found in the midst of the city.
26 And Nabuzardan the captain of the
king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.
27 And the king of Babylon smote them
in Deblatha, in the land of Æmath.
31 And it came to pass in the
thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away
captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth
day of the month,
that Ulæmadachar king of Babylon, in the year in
which he began to reign, raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and shaved
him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,
32 and spoke kindly to him, and set
his throne above the kings that were with him in Babylon,
33 and changed his prison garments:
and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.
34 And his appointed portion was
given him continually by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day
when he died.