English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 52, verse 62 in Web Version

Jeremiah 52 : 1 (WEB)

Zedekiah was twenty-one 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.

Jeremiah 52 : 2 (WEB)

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

Jeremiah 52 : 3 (WEB)

For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52 : 4 (WEB)

It happened 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 encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

Jeremiah 52 : 5 (WEB)

So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Jeremiah 52 : 6 (WEB)

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.

Jeremiah 52 : 7 (WEB)

Then a breach was made in the city, 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 against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.

Jeremiah 52 : 8 (WEB)

But 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.

Jeremiah 52 : 9 (WEB)

Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.

Jeremiah 52 : 10 (WEB)

The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

Jeremiah 52 : 11 (WEB)

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

Jeremiah 52 : 12 (WEB)

Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 52 : 13 (WEB)

and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

Jeremiah 52 : 14 (WEB)

All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

Jeremiah 52 : 15 (WEB)

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

Jeremiah 52 : 16 (WEB)

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

Jeremiah 52 : 17 (WEB)

The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52 : 18 (WEB)

The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.

Jeremiah 52 : 19 (WEB)

The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away.

Jeremiah 52 : 20 (WEB)

The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Jeremiah 52 : 21 (WEB)

As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow.

Jeremiah 52 : 22 (WEB)

A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.

Jeremiah 52 : 23 (WEB)

There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about.

Jeremiah 52 : 24 (WEB)

The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

Jeremiah 52 : 25 (WEB)

and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, 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.

Jeremiah 52 : 26 (WEB)

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Jeremiah 52 : 27 (WEB)

The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

Jeremiah 52 : 28 (WEB)

This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;

Jeremiah 52 : 29 (WEB)

in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;

Jeremiah 52 : 30 (WEB)

in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

Jeremiah 52 : 31 (WEB)

It happened 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;

Jeremiah 52 : 32 (WEB)

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

Jeremiah 52 : 33 (WEB)

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

Jeremiah 52 : 34 (WEB)

and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.