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The Second Book of Kings 25

25 And it happened, in the ninth year of his being king, in the tenth month on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem. And he camped against it, and they built a siegework against it all around. 2 And the city came into the siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth of the month, and the famine took hold in the city, and bread was not for the people of the land. 4 And the city was breached, and all the men of the war fled by night on a way of the gate between the two walls that were near the garden of the king, but Chaldeans were over the city all around. And he went the way of the desert plain. 5 But the army of Chaldeans pursued after the king, and they overtook him in the desert plain of Jericho. And all his army scattered away from him. 6 And they seized the king, and they brought him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah. And they spoke a judgment on him. 7 And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah to his eyes. And he blinded the eyes of Zedikiah, and he bound him with two bronze chains, and he brought him to Babylon.

8 And in the fifth month on the seventh of the month—it was the year of the 19 th year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the chief of the guards, the servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 And he burned the house of Yahweh and the house of the king. And all the houses of Jerusalem and every great house he burned with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the chief of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around. 11 But the rest of the people who were left in the city and the fallen ones who fell to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan chief of the guard exiled. 12 But the chief of the guards let some of the poor of the land remain for vinedressers and for farmers.

13 But the Chaldeans smashed the pillars of bronze that were in the house of Yahweh and the pedestals and the Sea of bronze that were in the house of Yahweh, and they lifted their bronze to Babylon. 14 And they took the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the spoons and all the utensils of bronze that they ministered with them. 15 And the chief of the guard took the censers and the bowls that were gold as gold and that were silver as silver. 16 The two pillars, the one Sea, and the pedestals that Solomon made for the house of Yahweh—a weight was not for the bronze of all these vessels. 17 The height of the first pillar was 18 cubits, and the capital on it was bronze, and the height of the capital was three cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital all around—the whole was bronze. And like these was the second pillar concerning the latticework.

18 And the chief of the guards took Seraiah the high priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three guards of the threshold. 19 And from the city he took one eunuch, because he was an inspector over the men of the war, and five men from those who saw the face of the king who were found in the city and the scribe, the official of the host, the one who drafted the people of the land and 60 men from the people of the land who were found in the city. 20 And Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard took them, and he made them go to the king of Babylon, to Riblah. 21 But the king of Babylon struck them, and he killed them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. And Judah was exiled away from its land.

22 And the people who remained in the land of Judah, who Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon allowed to remain—and he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them. 23 And all the captains of the armies, they and the men, heard that the king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah the Mizpah and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and Johanan the son of Kareah and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite and Jaazaniah the son of the Maakathite—they and their men. 24 And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, “Do not be afraid from the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and he will be good to you.” 25 And it happened in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama from the seed of the kingdom, came and ten men with him, and he struck Gedaliah, and he died, and the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were with him in Mizpah. 26 And all the people from the least and up to the great and the captains of the armies got up, and they went to Egypt, for they were afraid from the face of the Chaldeans.

27 And it happened in the 37 th year of the exile of Jehoiachin the king of Judah in the 12 th month on the 27 th of the month, Evil-Merodach the king of Babylon lifted the head of Jehoiachin the king of Judah from the house of prison in the year he became king. 28 And he spoke well with him, and he gave his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 And he changed the clothes of his prison, and he ate bread continually to his face all the days of his life. 30 And his allowance, a continual allowance, was given to him from the king, a provision of a day by its day all the days of his life.

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