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His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, just as Jehoiakim had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> that he expelled them from his presence.</span></p><p><span class="text">Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it; they built siegeworks against it all around. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Then a breach was made in the city wall;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24170a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered, deserting him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also killed all the officers of Judah at Riblah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He burned the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The pillars of bronze that were in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The captain of the guard took away the small bowls also, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the ladles, and the bowls for libation, both those of gold and those of silver. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24183b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> which King Solomon had made for the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weighing. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits; it was hollow and its thickness was four fingers. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Upon it was a capital of bronze; the height of the capital was five cubits; latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, encircled the top of the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates encircling the latticework numbered one hundred.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>The captain of the guard took the chief priest Seraiah, the second priest Zephaniah, and the three guardians of the threshold; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the soldiers, and seven men of the king’s council who were found in the city; 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 inside the city. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>And the king of Babylon struck them down, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile out of its land.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took into exile from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile of the Judeans seven hundred forty-five persons; all the persons were four thousand six hundred.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jehoiachin Favored in Captivity</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he began to reign, showed favor to King Jehoiachin of Judah and brought him out of prison; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes, and every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>For his allowance, a regular daily allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, as long as he lived, up to the day of his death.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 52:7">Jeremiah 52:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb lacks <i>wall</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 52:20">Jeremiah 52:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>that were under the stands</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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