Jeremiah 52:12–30

The Temple Burned

^12hIn the fifth month, on ⁱthe tenth day of the month—that was ^jthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who ^kserved the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. ¹³And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. ¹⁴And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. ¹⁵And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and ^lthe deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. ¹⁶But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

¹⁷And the ^mpillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the ⁿbronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and ^ocarried all the bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸And they took away ^pthe pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service; ^19qalso the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and ^rthe lampstands and ^sthe dishes for incense ^sand the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. ²⁰As for the two pillars, the one sea, ^tthe twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea,¹ and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight. ²¹As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,^{2 u}its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow. ²²On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was ^vfive cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates. ²³There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.

The People Exiled to Babylon

²⁴And the captain of the guard took ^wSeraiah the chief priest, and ^xZephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold; ²⁵and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and ^yseven men of the king’s council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, 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. ²⁶And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at ^zRiblah. ²⁷And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at ^zRiblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

²⁸This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: ^ain the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; ^29bin the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; ³⁰in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.