¹⁷The Babylonians broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the bronze stands, and the large bronze bowl, called the Sea, which were in the Temple of the Lord. Then they carried all the bronze pieces to Babylon. ¹⁸They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, bowls, dishes, and all the bronze objects used to serve in the Temple. ¹⁹The commander of the king’s special guards took away bowls, pans for carrying hot coals, large bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and bowls used for drink offerings. He took everything that was made of pure gold or silver.

²⁰There was so much bronze that it could not be weighed: two pillars, the large bronze bowl called the Sea with the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the Temple of the Lord.

²¹Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet high, eighteen feet around, and hollow inside. The wall of each pillar was three inches thick. ²²The bronze capital on top of the one pillar was about seven and one-half feet high. It was decorated with a net design and bronze pomegranates all around it. The other pillar also had pomegranates and was like the first pillar. ²³There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides of the pillars. There was a total of a hundred pomegranates above the net design.

²⁴The commander of the king’s special guards took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three doorkeepers. ²⁵He also took from the city the officer in charge of the soldiers, seven people who advised the king, the royal secretary who selected people for the army, and sixty other men from Judah who were in the city when it fell. ²⁶Nebuzaradan, the commander, took these people and brought them to the king of Babylon at the town of Riblah. ²⁷There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them killed.

So the people of Judah were led away from their country as captives.

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