2 Kings 24:18–25:21

¹⁸ⁱZedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was ^kHamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^19lAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. ²⁰For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, ^mthat Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

XXV.And it came to pass ^ain the ninth year of his reign, in the ^btenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built ^cforts against it round about. ²And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ³And on the ninth day of the ^dfourth month ^ethe famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. ⁴And ^ethe city was broken up, and ^fall the men of war ^gfled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by ^hthe king’s garden: (now the ⁱChaldees were against the city round about:) and ^jthe king went the way toward ^kthe plain. ⁵And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in ^kthe plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. ⁶So they took the king, and ^lbrought him up to the king of Babylon to ^mRiblah; and they gave judgment upon him. ⁷And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and ⁿput out the eyes of Zedekiah, and ^obound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

⁸And in the ^pfifth month, on the ^qseventh day of the month, which is ^rthe nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: ⁹and ^she burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and ^tall the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire. ¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldees, that were ^uwith the captain of the guard, ^wbrake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. ¹¹Now ^xthe rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away. ¹²But the captain of the guard left ^yof the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. ^13zAnd ^athe pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and ^bthe bases, and ^cthe brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. ¹⁴And ^dthe pots, and ^dthe shovels, and ^ethe snuffers, and ^fthe spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. ¹⁵And ^dthe firepans, and ^dthe bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. ^16gThe two pillars, one sea, and ^hthe bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; ⁱthe brass of all these vessels was without weight. ^17kThe height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter ^lthree cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. ¹⁸And the captain of the guard took ^mSeraiah ⁿthe chief priest, and ^oZephaniah ^pthe second priest, and the three keepers of the door: ¹⁹and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and ^qfive men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: ²⁰and Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to ^rRiblah: ²¹and the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at ^rRiblah in the land of Hamath. ^sSo Judah was carried away out of their land.