Jeremiah 52 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
He did what was in exactly like Jehoiakim had done.
It was because of Yahweh's anger against Jerusalem and Judah that all of this happened — until he finally them out of And then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They set up camp against it and built all around it.
The city stayed under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the in the city had become so severe that there was no food left for the ordinary people.
Then the city wall was breached. All the soldiers fled — they left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Babylonians had the city surrounded. They headed toward the
But the Babylonian army chased after King Zedekiah and caught up with him on the of His entire army had scattered and abandoned him.
They captured the king and brought to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where Nebuchadnezzar on
The king of Babylon Zedekiah's sons right in front of him. He also all the officials of Judah at Riblah.
Then he Zedekiah, bound him in and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, where he kept him in prison until the day he died.
On the tenth day of the fifth month — in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon — Nebuzaradan, the of the who served directly under the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
He burned down the royal palace, and every important building in Jerusalem — every large structure was set on fire.
The entire Babylonian army under the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem.
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried off into some of the poorest people along with the rest of the population who were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remaining skilled workers.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left behind some of the of the to work the vineyards and the fields.
The Babylonians smashed the bronze pillars that were in Yahweh's temple, the bronze stands, and the huge bronze basin called the and they hauled all the bronze off to Babylon.
They also took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the sprinkling bowls, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.
The captain of the guard took the basins, the firepans, the sprinkling bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the dishes, and the drink offering bowls — everything that was made of pure gold or pure silver.
The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands — which King Solomon had made for Yahweh's temple — was more than could
As for the each one was twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet around. They were hollow — the bronze was about three inches thick.
On top of each pillar was a bronze capital seven and a half feet high, with a network of decorative around the capital — all bronze. The second pillar was identical, also with
There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a hundred pomegranates total around the network.
The captain of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the Zephaniah the second-ranking and the three
From the city he took an officer who had been in charge of the soldiers, seven of the king's who were found in the city, the chief military secretary who drafted the civilian population for war, and sixty ordinary citizens who were found inside the city.
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
The king of Babylon struck them down and executed them at Riblah in the of Hamath. And so Judah was from its own into exile.
These are the numbers of people Nebuchadnezzar in the seventh year, 3,023 people from Judah;
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, 832 people from Jerusalem;
in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard deported 745 people from Judah. The total number of people deported was 4,600.
Then, in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, King of Babylon — in the year he became king — showed to King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
He spoke kindly to him and gave him a of above the other captive kings who were with him in Babylon.
So Jehoiachin changed out of his and ate at the king's table regularly for the rest of his life.
And he received a from the king of Babylon — a daily portion for every day — for the rest of his life, right up until the day he died.