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| 1Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. | 1Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. |
| 2Zedekiah had done evil in the LORD's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done. | 2And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. |
| 3Because Jerusalem and Judah had angered the Lord, he cast them out of his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon, | 3For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. |
| 4and in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with all his army. He encamped near it and set up siege works all around it. | 4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. |
| 5The city was under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah. | 5So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. |
| 6By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe that there was no food for the people of the land. | 6And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. |
| 7The wall of the city was broken through, and all the soldiers fled, leaving the city at night through the gate between the two walls next to the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah. | 7Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. |
| 8The Chaldean army went after the king, overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his troops were scattered from him. | 8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. |
| 9They captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where the king of Babylon passed judgment on him. | 9Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. |
| 10The king of Babylon killed Zedekiah's sons before his eyes, and he also killed all the Judean officials at Riblah. | 10And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. |
| 11He blinded Zedekiah and bound him in bronze shackles. Then the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until he died. | 11Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. |
| 12In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—it was the nineteenth year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. | 12Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, |
| 13He burned the LORD's Temple, the king's house, and all the houses in Jerusalem. He also burned every public building with fire. | 13And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: |
| 14All the Chaldean troops who were with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem. | 14And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. |
| 15Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. | 15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. |
| 16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and farmers. | 16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. |
| 17The Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars that were in the LORD's Temple and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the LORD's Temple, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. | 17Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. |
| 18They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the pans, and all the bronze utensils that were used in the temple service. | 18The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. |
| 19The captain of the guard took away the bowls, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the pans, and the bowls for libations, both those made of gold and those made of silver. | 19And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away. |
| 20There was too much bronze to weigh in the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze oxen that were under the sea, and the stands which King Solomon had made for the LORD's Temple. | 20The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. |
| 21Each of the pillars was twelve cubits high and its circumference twelve cubits. It was hollow and about a handbreadth thick. | 21And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. |
| 22On each pillar was a capital of bronze, and the height of each capital was five cubits. Latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar was like this, including the pomegranates. | 22And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. |
| 23There were 96 pomegranates open to view. In all, there were 100 pomegranates all around the latticework. | 23And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about. |
| 24The captain of the guard arrested Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the next ranking priest, and the three guards of the gate. | 24And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: |
| 25From the city he arrested one of the officers who had been in charge of the troops, seven men from the king's personal advisors who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and 60 men of the people of the land who were found inside the city. | 25He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. |
| 26Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard arrested them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. | 26So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. |
| 27The king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from the land. | 27And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land. |
| 28These are the people Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; | 28This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: |
| 29in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem; | 29In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: |
| 30in Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took 745 people from Judah into exile. All the people taken into exile numbered 4,600. | 30In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. |
| 31In the first year of his reign, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, showed favor to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah. | 31And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, |
| 32He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the other kings who were in Babylon with him. | 32And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, |
| 33Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and regularly dined with the king as long as he lived. | 33And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. |
| 34As for his living expenses, a regular allowance was given him daily by the king of Babylon as long as he lived, until the day of his death. | 34And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. |
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