2 Kings 25:8–21

⁸And in the fifth month, ^gon the seventh day of the month (which was ^hthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), ⁱNebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ^9jHe burned the house of the Lord ^kand the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, ^lhe burned with fire. ¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^mbroke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.

¹¹Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive ⁿthe rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude. ¹²But the captain of the guard ^oleft some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers. ^13pThe bronze ^qpillars that were in the house of the Lord, and ^rthe carts and ^sthe bronze Sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and ^tcarried their bronze to Babylon. ¹⁴They also took away ^uthe pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered. ¹⁵The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away. ¹⁶The two pillars, one Sea, and the carts, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, ^vthe bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. ^17wThe height of one pillar was ⁴eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.

^18xAnd the captain of the guard took ^ySeraiah the chief priest, ^zZephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. ¹⁹He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, ^afive men of ⁵the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the chief recruiting officer 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. ²⁰So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²¹Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. ^bThus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.