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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 52 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/52.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/52-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Jeremiah 52</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/51.htm" title="Jeremiah 51">◄</a> Jeremiah 52 <a href="../lamentations/1.htm" title="Lamentations 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/52.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Fall of Jerusalem Recounted</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For because of the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence.</p><p class="regular">And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and 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>He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.</p> <p class="heading">The Temple Burned</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he burned the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks the sea">a</a></sup></span> and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters">b</a></sup></span> its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.</p> <p class="heading">The People Exiled to Babylon</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king’s council, who were found in the city; and the secretary 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them 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 the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.</p> <p class="heading">Jehoiachin Released from Prison</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew reign, lifted up the head of">c</a></sup></span> Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, until the day of his death, as long as he lived.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">the sea</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">cubit</i> was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">reign</span>, lifted up the head of</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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