[1] Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for
eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter
of Jeremiah of Libnah. [2] And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as
Jehoiakim had done. [3] And because of the wrath of the Lord this came
about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him:
and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon. [4] And in the ninth
year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king
of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his
position before it, building earthworks all round it. [5] So the town was
shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. [6] In the
fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town
was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land. [7]
Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war
went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two
walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed
round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah. [8] And the
Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side
of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
[9] Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged. [10] And the king of
Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to
death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah. [11] And he put out Zedekiah's
eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to
Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. [12] Now in the
fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men,
a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem. [13] And he had the
house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem,
even every great house, burned with fire: [14] And the walls round
Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the
captain. [15] Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as
prisoners the rest of the people who were still in the town, and those who
had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
workmen. [16] But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the
poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the
fields. [17] And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and
the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the
Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to
Babylon. [18] And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights
and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they
took away. [19] And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots
and the supports for the lights and the spoons and the wide basins; the
gold of the gold vessels, and the silver of the silver vessels, the captain
of the armed men took away. [20] The two pillars, the great water-vessel,
and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases,
which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all
these vessels was without weight. [21] And as for the pillars, one pillar
was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was
as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow. [22] And there was a crown of
brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and
apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same. [23] There were
ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the
network was a hundred. [24] And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah,
the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three
door-keepers; [25] And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was
over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the
town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for
getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of
the people of the land who were in the town. [26] These Nebuzaradan, the
captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
[27] And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land. [28] These are the
people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three
thousand and twenty-three Jews: [29] And in the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and
thirty-two persons: [30] In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar,
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven
hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and
six hundred. [31] And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of
Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth
day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after
he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison. [32] And he
said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other
kings who were with him in Babylon. [33] And his prison clothing was
changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of
his life. [34] And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every
day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

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