Jeremiah 52:12–30

¹²Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,^l who stood before^m the king of Babylon, entered into Jerusalem. ¹³And he burned the templeⁿ of Yahweh, and the palace^o of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire. ¹⁴And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard^p broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. ¹⁵And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard^q deported some of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon, along with the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard^r left some of the poor of the land to serve as vinedressers and farmers.

¹⁷And the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the temple^s of Yahweh, and the kettle stands and the sea of bronze that were in the temple^t of Yahweh, and they carried all their bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸And they took with them the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pans, and all the vessels of bronze which were used in temple service. ¹⁹And the captain of the guard^u took the bowls, and the firepans, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the pans, and the libation bowls, those made of solid gold^v and those made of solid silver.^{w 20}The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the temple^x of Yahweh—there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels! ²¹Now the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits,^y and a thread of twelve cubits^z surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollowed out. ²²And a capital upon it was bronze and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital on all sides, all of bronze. And like these was the second pillar with pomegranates. ²³And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides;^a all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides were a hundred.

²⁴Then the captain of the guard^b took Seraiah the chief priest,^c and Zephaniah the second priest,^d and three keepers of the threshold. ²⁵And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over the soldiers,^e and seven men of the king’s advisors^f who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men^g of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. ²⁶Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard^h took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land.

²⁸This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans; ²⁹in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two personsⁱ from Jerusalem; ³⁰in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,^j deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons;^k there were four thousand six hundred persons^l in all.