Jeremiah 52:12–30

^12aNow on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the ^bnineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, ^cNebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, ¹who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

¹³He ^aburned the house of the Lord, the ^bking’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

¹⁴So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^abroke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

¹⁵Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard ^acarried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the ^1bdeserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

¹⁶But ^aNebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and ¹plowmen.

¹⁷Now the bronze ^apillars which belonged to the house of the Lord and the ^bstands and the bronze ^csea, which were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

¹⁸They also took away the ^apots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the ¹pans and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service.

¹⁹The captain of the guard also took away the ^abowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the ¹pans and the drink offering bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.

²⁰The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under ¹the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord—the bronze of all these vessels was ^abeyond weight.

²¹As for the pillars, the ^aheight of each pillar was eighteen ¹cubits, and ²it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

²²Now a ^acapital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and ^bpomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.

²³There were ninety-six ¹exposed pomegranates; all ^athe pomegranates numbered a hundred on the network all around.

²⁴Then the captain of the guard took ^aSeraiah the chief priest and ^bZephaniah the second priest, with the three ^1cofficers of the temple.

²⁵He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven ¹of the ^aking’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe 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.

²⁶Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and ^abrought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

²⁷Then the king of Babylon ^astruck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was ^bled away into exile from its land.

²⁸These are the people whom ^aNebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the ¹seventh year 3,023 Jews;

²⁹in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem;

³⁰in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, ^aNebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.