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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 NET Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">NET Bible</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">&#9668;</a> Jeremiah 52 <a href="../lamentations/1.htm" title="Lamentations 1">&#9658;</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">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/jeremiah/52.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters">&nbsp;Par&nbsp;&#9662;&nbsp;</a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Fall of Jerusalem</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother&#8217;s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He did what displeased the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> just as Jehoiakim had done.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>&#8217;s anger when he drove them out of his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The city remained under siege until Zedekiah&#8217;s eleventh year. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king&#8217;s garden. (The Babylonians had the city surrounded.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and his entire army deserted him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They captured him and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the territory of Hamath and he passed sentence on him there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The king of Babylon had Zedekiah&#8217;s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. He also had all the nobles of Judah put to death there at Riblah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He had Zedekiah&#8217;s eyes put out and had him bound in chains. Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He burned down the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>&#8217;s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But he left behind some of the poor and gave them fields and vineyards.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the &#8220;The Sea.&#8221; They took all the bronze to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They also took the pots, shovels, trimming shears, basins, pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The captain of the royal guard took the gold and silver bowls, censers, basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and vessels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>&#8217;s temple (including the two pillars, the large bronze basin called &#8220;The Sea,&#8221; the twelve bronze bulls under &#8220;The Sea,&#8221; and the movable stands) was too heavy to be weighed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Each of the pillars was about 27 feet high, about 18 feet in circumference, three inches thick, and hollow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The bronze top of one pillar was about seven and one-half feet high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its pomegranate-shaped ornaments was like it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>From the city he took an official who was in charge of the soldiers, seven of the king&#8217;s advisers who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens for military service, and sixty citizens who were discovered in the middle of the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.</p><p class="bodytext">So Judah was taken into exile away from its land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Here is the official record of the number of people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>in Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>in Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.</p> <p class="title">Jehoiachin in Exile</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king&#8217;s presence for the rest of his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright &copy; 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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