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2 Kings 25 Smith's Literal Translation

<!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>2 Kings 25 Smith's Literal Translation</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/2_kings/25.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/2_kings/25-1.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="../">SLT</a> > 2 Kings 25</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/24.htm" title="2 Kings 24">&#9668;</a> 2 Kings 25 <a href="../1_chronicles/1.htm" title="1 Chronicles 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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/25-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses">&nbsp;Par&nbsp;&#9662;&nbsp;</a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/36.htm#15">2 Chronicles 36:15&#8211;21</a>; <a href ="../jeremiah/39.htm">Jeremiah 39:1&#8211;10</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it will be in the ninth year to his reigning, in the tenth month, in the tenth to the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel came, he, and all his strength, against Jerusalem, and he will encamp against it, and build a watch tower against her round about. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the city will go into siege till the eleventh year to king Zedekiah. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In the ninth to the month and the famine will be strong in the city, and there was not bread for the people of the land. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the city will be broken up, and all the men of war by night the way of the gate between the walls by the king's garden: (and the Chaldees against the city round about;) and he will go the way of the sterile region. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the strength of the Chaldees will pursue after the king, and they will overtake him in the sterile region of Jericho: and all his strength was scattered from him. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And they will seize the king and bring him up to the king of Babel to Riblah; and they will speak judgment with him. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and he will bind him with fetters, and bring him to Babel.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">The Temple Destroyed<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/52.htm#12">Jeremiah 52:12&#8211;23</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And in the fifth month, in the seventh to the month, (this year the nineteenth year to king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel,) came Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, servant of the king of Babel, to Jerusalem. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he will burn the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt in fire. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the walls of Jerusalem round about, all the strength of the Chaldees which were with the chief of the cooks brake down. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the rest of the people being left in the city, and those falling away which fell to the king of Babel, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan chief of the cooks carried into exile. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And of the powerless of the land the chief of the cooks left for vine-dressers and for ploughers.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the pillars of brass which were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which were in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldees brake in pieces, and they will lift up their brass into Babel. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes, and all the vessels of brass which they served in them, they took. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the fire pans and the vases which were of gold, gold, and which were of silver, silver, the chief of the cooks took. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases which Solomon made for the house of Jehovah; there was no weight to the brass of these vessels. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Eighteen cubits the height of the one pillar, and the capital upon it of brass: and the height of the capital, three cubits; and the net and the pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass; and according to these for the second pillar upon the net.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Captives Carried to Babylon<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/52.htm#24">Jeremiah 52:24&#8211;30</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the chief of the cooks will take Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three watchers of the threshold: <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And out of the city he took one eunuch, he who was appointed over the men of war, and five men seeing the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army mustering the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, will take them and bring them to the king of Babel to Riblah: <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the king of Babel will strike them and kill them in Riblah in the land of Hamath; and Judah will be carried into exile from their land.<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">Gedaliah Governs in Judah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/40.htm">Jeremiah 40:1&#8211;16</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the people being left in the land of Judah which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel left, and he will appoint over them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And all the chiefs of the armies, they and their men, will hear that the king of Babel appointed Gedaliah and there will come to Gedaliah to Mizpeh, and Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, son of Kareah, and Seraiah, son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of a Maachathite, they and their men. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Gedaliah will swear to them and to their men, and say to them, Ye shall not fear serving the Chaldees: dwell in the land and serve the king of Babel, and it shall be well to you.<p> <A name="26"></a><p class="hdg">The Murder of Gedaliah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/41.htm">Jeremiah 41:1&#8211;10</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And it will be in the seventh month, Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom, came, and ten men with him, and he will strike Gedaliah, and he will die, and the Jews and the Chaldees who were with him in Mizpeh. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And all the people will rise from small and even to great, and the chiefs of the armies, and they will go to Egypt, for they were afraid from the face of the Chaldees.<p> <A name="28"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoiachin Released from Prison<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/52.htm#31">Jeremiah 52:31&#8211;34</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And it will be in the thirty and seventh year to the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month, Evil-Merodach king of Babel in the year of his reigning lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of shutting up. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he will speak with him good things, and he will give his throne above the throne of the kings which were with him in Babel. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he changed the garments of his shutting up: and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/25-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And his ration a ration continually, given to him from the king, the word of a day in its day all the days of his life.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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