2 Kings 25:8–21

Jerusalem Burned

^8aNow on the seventh day of the ^bfifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

^9aAnd he burned the house of Yahweh, ^bthe king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

¹⁰So all the military force of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^atore down the walls around Jerusalem.

¹¹Then ^athe rest of the people who were left in the city and the defectors who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took away into exile.

¹²But the captain of the guard left some of ^athe poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

^13aNow the bronze pillars which were in the house of Yahweh, and the stands and ^bthe bronze sea which were in the house of Yahweh, the Chaldeans shattered and carried the ¹bronze to Babylon.

^14aThey also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the bronze vessels which were used to minister.

¹⁵The captain of the guard also took away the firepans and the bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.

¹⁶The two pillars, the one sea, and the stands which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh—^athe bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

^17aThe height of the one pillar was eighteen ¹cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three ²cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

¹⁸Then the captain of the guard took ^aSeraiah the chief priest and ^bZephaniah the second priest, with the three ¹doorkeepers of the temple.

¹⁹And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and ^afive ¹of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; and the ²scribe 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 city.

²⁰And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and led them to the king of Babylon at ^aRiblah.

²¹Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. ^aSo Judah went into exile from its land.