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His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as Jehoiakim had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>These things happened because of the LORD’s anger against the people of Jerusalem and Judah, until he finally banished them from his presence and sent them into exile.</p><p class="reg">Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So on January 15,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> during the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the Babylonian troops chased King Zedekiah and overtook him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath. There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The king of Babylon made Zedekiah watch as he slaughtered his sons. He also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then he gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in bronze chains, and the king of Babylon led him away to Babylon. Zedekiah remained there in prison until the day of his death.</p><p class="hdg">The Temple Destroyed</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On August 17 of that year,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard and an official of the Babylonian king, arrived in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He burned down the Temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> in the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he supervised the entire Babylonian<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem on every side. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took as exiles some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had declared their allegiance to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Nebuzaradan allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind to care for the vineyards and fields.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars in front of the LORD’s Temple, the bronze water carts, and the great bronze basin called the Sea, and they carried all the bronze away to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They also took all the ash buckets, shovels, lamp snuffers, basins, dishes, and all the other bronze articles used for making sacrifices at the Temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The captain of the guard also took the small bowls, incense burners, basins, pots, lampstands, ladles, bowls used for liquid offerings, and all the other articles made of pure gold or silver.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea with the twelve bronze oxen beneath it, and the water carts was too great to be measured. These things had been made for the LORD’s Temple in the days of King Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Each of the pillars was 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> They were hollow, with walls 3 inches thick.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">j</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The bronze capital on top of each pillar was 7 <span class="sup">1</span>/<span class="sub">2</span> feet<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">k</span></a> high and was decorated with a network of bronze pomegranates all the way around. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>There were 96 pomegranates on the sides, and a total of 100 pomegranates on the network around the top.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took with him as prisoners Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three chief gatekeepers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the Judean army; seven of the king’s personal advisers; the army commander’s chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment; and sixty other citizens. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon had them all put to death. So the people of Judah were sent into exile from their land.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The number of captives taken to Babylon in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">l</span></a> was 3,023. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">m</span></a> he took 832 more. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>In Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">n</span></a> he sent Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who took 745 more—a total of 4,600 captives in all.</p><p class="hdg">Hope for Israel’s Royal Line</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">o</span></a> Jehoiachin and released him from prison on March 31 of that year.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">p</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings in Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He supplied Jehoiachin with new clothes to replace his prison garb and allowed him to dine in the king’s presence for the rest of his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>So the Babylonian king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived. This continued until the day of his death.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:4a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">on the tenth day of the tenth month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of events in Jeremiah can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This day was January 15, 588 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:4b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Nebuchadrezzar,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar; also in 52:12, 28, 29, 30.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">By the ninth day of the fourth month</span><span class="ft"> [in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign]. This day was July 18, 586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">; also see note on 52:4a.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:7a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the Chaldeans;</span><span class="ft"> similarly in 52:8, 17.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:7b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the Arabah.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">On the tenth day of the fifth month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day was August 17, 586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">; also see note on 52:4a.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">destroyed the houses of all the important people.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Chaldean.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:21a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">18 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [8.3 meters] </span><span class="it">tall and 12 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [5.5 meters] </span><span class="it">in circumference.</span><br><span class="fn">j</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:21b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">4 fingers thick</span><span class="ft"> [8 centimeters].</span><br><span class="fn">k</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:22 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">5 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [2.3 meters].</span><br><span class="fn">l</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:28 </span><span class="ft">This exile in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign occurred in 597 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><br><span class="fn">m</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:29 </span><span class="ft">This exile in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign occurred in 586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><br><span class="fn">n</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:30 </span><span class="ft">This exile in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign occurred in 581 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><br><span class="fn">o</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:31a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">He raised the head of.</span><br><span class="fn">p</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:31b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. 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