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Jeremiah 52

The Fall of Jerusalem

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 aZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was  1 bHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of  cLibnah.

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He did  aevil in the sight of the LORD like all that  bJehoiakim had done.

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For through the  aanger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah  brebelled against the king of Babylon.

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 aNow it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a  bsiege wall all around  1it.

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 aSo the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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On the ninth day of the  afourth month the  bfamine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

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Then the city was  abroken into, and all the  bmen of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were  1 call around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and  aovertook Zedekiah in the  1plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

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Then they captured the king and  abrought him up to the king of Babylon at  bRiblah in the land of  cHamath, and he  1passed sentence on him.

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The king of Babylon  aslaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the  1princes of Judah in Riblah.

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Then he  ablinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

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 aNow on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the  bnineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,  cNebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard,  1who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

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He  aburned the house of the LORD, the  bking's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

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So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard  abroke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

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Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard  acarried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the  1 bdeserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

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But  aNebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and  1plowmen.

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Now the bronze  apillars which belonged to the house of the LORD and the  bstands and the bronze  csea, which were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

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They also took away the  apots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the  1pans and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service.

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The captain of the guard also took away the  abowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the  1pans and the drink offering bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.

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The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under  1the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these vessels was  abeyond weight.

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As for the pillars, the  aheight of each pillar was eighteen  1cubits, and  2it was twelve cubits in  acircumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

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Now a  acapital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and  bpomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.

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There were ninety-six  1exposed pomegranates; all  athe pomegranates numbered a hundred on the network all around.

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Then the captain of the guard took  aSeraiah the chief priest and  bZephaniah the second priest, with the three  1 cofficers of the temple.

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He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven  1of the  aking's advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

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Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and  abrought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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Then the king of Babylon  astruck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was  bled away into exile from its land.

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These are the people whom  aNebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the  1seventh year 3,023 Jews;

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in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem;

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in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar,  aNebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

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 aNow it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that  1Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign,  2 bshowed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

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 aThen he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

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So  1Jehoiachin  achanged his prison clothes, and  2 bhad his meals in  3the king's presence regularly all the days of his life.

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For his allowance, a  aregular allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.



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