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Jeremiah 52 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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The Fall of Jerusalem

(2Ki 24:18—25:26; 2Ch 36:11–20; Jer 39:1–10 )
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:1 - Zedekiah was one and twenty 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:2 - And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:3 - For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:4 - And it came to pass 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 built forts against it on every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:5 - So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth from 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 by the city on all sides:) and they went by the way of the plain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:8 - But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:9 - Then they took the king, and carried him to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:10 - And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:11 - Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12 - Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:13 - And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men he burned with fire:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem on every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:15 - Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:16 - But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:17 - Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:18 - The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, they took away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:19 - And the basins, and the fire-pans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:21 - And concerning the pillars, the hight of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits encompassed it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:22 - And a capital of brass was upon it; and the hight of one capital was five cubits, with net-work and pomegranates upon the capitals around, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like to these.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:23 - And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the net-work were a hundred on all sides.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:24 - And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - He took also out of the city a eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:26 - So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:27 - And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:28 - This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:29 - In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:30 - In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
(2Ki 25:27–30 )
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 - And it came to pass 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 Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:32 - And spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33 - And changed his prison garments: and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:34 - And for his food there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
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