Jeremiah 52:12–30

¹²On the tenth day of the fifth month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, entered Jerusalem as the representative of^B the king of Babylon. ¹³He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses. ¹⁴The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down all the walls surrounding Jerusalem.^{m 15}Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.ⁿ

¹⁷Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the Lord’s temple and the water carts and the bronze basin^C that were in the Lord’s temple,^o and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. ¹⁹The captain of the guards took away the bowls, firepans, sprinkling basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls^p —whatever was gold or silver.

²⁰As for the two pillars, the one basin, with the twelve bronze oxen under it, and the water carts^D that King Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. ²¹One pillar was 27 feet^E tall, had a circumference of 18 feet,^F was hollow—four fingers thick—²²and had a bronze capital on top of it.^a One capital, encircled by bronze grating and pomegranates, stood 7½ feet^G high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates. ²³Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the grating numbered one hundred.

²⁴The captain of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers. ²⁵From the city he took a court official^A who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides^B found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and sixty men from the common people^C who were found within the city. ²⁶Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.^b

²⁸These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported:^c in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; ²⁹in his eighteenth year,^D 832 people from Jerusalem; ³⁰in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported 745 Jews. Altogether, 4,600 people were deported.