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          DASV: Jeremiah 52    

1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as
Jehoiakim had done.
3 These things happened because of the anger of the LORD
against Jerusalem and Judah, until he deported them out
of his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 In the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of
his reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with his
entire army against Jerusalem. They camped against it and
built siege ramps all around it.
5 So the city was under siege to the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
6 In the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe
in the city, so that there was no food for the people of the land.
7 Then a breach was made in the city wall, and all the
warriors fled. They went out of the city at night by the way
of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's
garden. Now the Chaldeans had the city surrounded, nevertheless
they escaped toward the Arabah.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. All his army scattered,
deserting him.

9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king
of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath where he rendered
judgment on him.
10 The king of Babylon executed the sons of Zedekiah before
his eyes. He also killed the officials of Judah in Riblah.
11 Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and the king of Babylon
bound him in bronze chains, and brought him to Babylon, and
put him in prison until the day of his death.

12 Now in tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year
of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard, an official of the king of Babylon
came into Jerusalem.
13 He burned the temple of the LORD, the king's palace,
and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every great house he burned
down.
14 Then all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the
captain of the guard, broke down all the walls surrounding
Jerusalem.
15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard deported some
of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who
were left in the city, and traitors who deserted to the
king of Babylon, along with the rest of the craftsmen.
16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of
the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.

17 The pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD,
the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of
the LORD, the Chaldeans broke into pieces, and carried
off all the bronze to Babylon.
18 They also took the pots, shovels, lamp snuffers, basins,
and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze that were used
by priests in the temple service.
19 The captain of the guard also took away all the cups,
firepans, basins, pots, lampstands, ladles and cups and
any other things made of gold or silver.
20 The two pillars, the one sea with the twelve bronze oxen
supporting it and the carts that King Solomon had made
for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these items
was beyond weighing.
21 Each pillar was 27 feet tall and 27 feet around. They
were hollow with walls 3 inches thick.
22 A capital of bronze on top of it was seven and a half
feet tall, with latticework and pomegranate ornamentation
around the capital, all in bronze. The second pillar was
also the same with similar decorative pomegranates.
23 There were 96 pomegranates on the sides and there were
100 pomegranates on the latticework.

24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah, the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second ranking priest and the three door
keepers.
25 From the city he took an officer who was over the
soldiers, and seven men who were the king's advisers, who
were found in the city. The secretary of the commander-in-chief,
who mustered the people of the land, and 60 men of
the people of the land who were found inside the city.

26 Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard took them
and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27 The king of Babylon struck them down, and put them
to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was
deported into exile out of his land.
28 These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported
into exile. In the seventh year of his reign there were
3,023 Jews.
29 In the eighteenth year, Nebuchadnezzar deported into
exile 832 people from Jerusalem.
30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard deported into exile 745 Jews.
All total there were 4,600 captives.

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin
of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, that
Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his
reign, graciously released King Jehoiachin of Judah and
brought him out of prison.
32 He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne higher than
the throne of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
33 He took off his prison clothes and he regularly ate food
at the king's table all the days of his life.
34 For his allowance, there was a daily allowance given
him by the king of Babylon as long as he lived until the
day of his death.

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