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Zedekiah◦ was a son of twenty and one years when he became··king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem . And the name of his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah ◦ of Libnah.
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And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah , according··to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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For on··account··of the anger of Jehovah it came··to··pass◦ in Jerusalem and Judah , until He had cast them out from before His face , that Zedekiah◦ revolted against the king of Babylon .
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And it was, in the ninth year of his reign , in the tenth month , in the tenth of the month , that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came , he and all his host, against Jerusalem , and encamped against it, and built ramps against it all around.
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And the city came under▫ siege until the eleventh◦ year of King Zedekiah◦.
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And in the fourth month , in the ninth of the month , the famine held· the city ·firmly, and there was not bread for the people of the land .
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And the city was split, and all the men◦ of war ran··away, and went··out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two··walls , which was by◦ the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans were by◦ the city all around, and they went by the way of the plain ▵.
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But the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah◦ in the plains ▵ of Jericho ; and all his host was scattered from him.
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Then they took the king, and brought him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Chamath; where he spoke judgment upon him.
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And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah◦ before his eyes ; and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
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And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah◦; and the king of Babylon bound him in two··bronze fetters, and brought him to Babylon , and put ◦ him in the house of the overseer until the day of his death.
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And in the fifth month , on◦ the tenth of the month , it was the nineteenth year, the year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , came Nebuzaradan, a major of the guards◦, who stood before the king of Babylon , into Jerusalem ,
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and burned the house of Jehovah , and the house of the king; and all the houses of Jerusalem , and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire :
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and all the host of the Chaldeans , who were with◦ the major of the guards◦, tore··down all the walls all around Jerusalem .
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And from the poor of the people, and the remnant of the people that were left in the city , and those that fell , that fell to the king of Babylon , and the remainder of the crowd, Nebuzaradan, the major of the guards◦ exiled.
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But Nebuzaradan the major of the guards◦ left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farm··workers◦.
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And the pillars of bronze that were for the house of Jehovah , and the bases, and the sea of bronze that was in the house of Jehovah , the Chaldeans broke up, and they carried all the bronze of them to▫ Babylon .
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And the pots , and the shovels, and the snippers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered , they took.
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And the bowls, and the censers, and the basins, and the pots , and the lampstands , and the spoons, and the little··brooms which were of gold in gold , and which were of silver in silver , the major of the guards◦ took.
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The two pillars , the one sea , and the twelve cattle of bronze that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah , there was no◦ weight for the bronze of all these vessels .
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And concerning the pillars , the height ◦ of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a thread of twelve cubits did surround it; and its thickness was four fingers ; it was hollow.
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And a capital of bronze was upon it; and the height ◦ of one capital was five cubits, with netting and pomegranates on the capitals all around, all of bronze . The second pillar also and the pomegranates were as these.
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And there were ninety and six pomegranates toward the wind ; and all the pomegranates upon the netting were a hundred all around.
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And the major of the guards◦ took Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the doorway;
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and he took from the city one eunuch , who was appointed over the men ◦ of war ; and seven men ◦ of them that saw the face of the king, which were found in the city ; and the scribe of the commander ◦ of the army , who made· the people of the land ·an··army ; and sixty men ◦ of the people of the land , that were found in the midst of the city .
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So Nebuzaradan the major of the guards◦ took them, and made them go to▵ the king of Babylon to▫ Riblah.
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And the king of Babylon smote them, and put · them ·to··death in Riblah on the ground of Chamath. Thus Judah was exiled out of his own land .
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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar exiled in the seventh year, three thousand Jews and twenty and three Jews:
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in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he exiled from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two souls ;
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in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the major of the guards◦ exiled of the Jews seven hundred forty and five souls ; all the souls were four thousand and six hundred .
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And it was, in the thirty and seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah , in the twelfth month , in the twenty and fifth day of the month , that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his kingdom lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah , and brought· him ·out from the prison house ,
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and spoke kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon ,
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and changed◦ his prison garments ; and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life .
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And his diet was a continual diet given him from the king of Babylon , the word of the day in the day thereof, until the day of his death, all the days of his life .