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 commander of the guards, entered Jerusalem as the representative of ^ythe king of Babylon. ¹³He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the nobles. ¹⁴The whole Chaldean army with the commander of the guards tore down all the walls surrounding Jerusalem. ^z15Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶But some of the poorest people of the land Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, left to be vinedressers and farmers. ^a

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

²⁰As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the 12 bronze bulls under the water carts 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 ^dtall, had a circumference of 18 feet, ^ewas hollow—four fingers thick— ²²and had a bronze capital on top of it. ^fOne capital, encircled by bronze latticework and pomegranates, stood 7½ feet ^ghigh. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates. ²³Each capital had 96 pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the latticework numbered 100.

²⁴The commander 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 who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides ^hfound in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people who were found within the city. ²⁶Nebuzaradan, the commander 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. ⁱ

²⁸These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: ^jin the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; ²⁹in his eighteenth year, ^k832 people from Jerusalem; ³⁰in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported 745 Jews. All together 4,600 people were deported.