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His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.2" /> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Zedekiah did what was evil in the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s sight just as Jehoiakim had done.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Because of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s anger, it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he finally banished them from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled. They left the city at night by way of the city gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army left him and scattered. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and he also slaughtered the Judean commanders. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.11.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> until his dying day.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On the tenth day of the fifth month — which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon — Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, entered Jerusalem as the representative of<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.12.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> the king of Babylon. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He burned the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down all the walls surrounding Jerusalem.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.16.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s temple and the water carts and the bronze basin<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.17.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> that were in the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s temple,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.17.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.19" /> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The captain of the guards took away the bowls, firepans, sprinkling basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.19.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> — whatever was gold or silver.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.20" /> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As for the two pillars, the one basin, with the twelve bronze oxen under it, and the water carts<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.20.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> that King Solomon had made for the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.21" /> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>One pillar was 27 feet<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.21.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> tall, had a circumference of 18 feet,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.21.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">B</span></a> was hollow — four fingers thick —  <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.22" /> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and had a bronze capital on top of it.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.22.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> One capital, encircled by bronze grating and pomegranates, stood 7 <span class="superscript">1</span>/<span class="subscript">2</span> feet<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.22.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.23" /> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the grating numbered one hundred.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.24" /> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The captain of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.25" /> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>From the city he took a court official<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.25.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.25.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">B</span></a> found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and sixty men from the common people<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.25.3"><span class="fnAlphabet">C</span></a> who were found within the city. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.26" /> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.27" /> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.27.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.28" /> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.28.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.29" /> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>in his eighteenth year,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.52.29.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> 832 people from Jerusalem; <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.30" /> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported 745 Jews. Altogether, 4,600 people were deported.</p><h3 class="head1">Jehoiachin Pardoned</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.31" /> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.32" /> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.33" /> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon for the rest of his life. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.52.34" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/52-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.52.34.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><br /><section id="footnotes-Jeremiah.52" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.11.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.11">52:11</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">in a house of guards</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.12.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.12">52:12</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Jerusalem; he stood before</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.17.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.17">52:17</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">sea</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.20.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.20">52:20</a></span> LXX, Syr; MT reads <span class="italic">oxen under the water carts</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.21.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.21">52:21</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">18 cubits</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.21.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.21">52:21</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">12 cubits</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.22.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.22">52:22</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">five cubits</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.25.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.25">52:25</a></span> Or <span class="italic">a eunuch</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.25.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.25">52:25</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">seven men who look on the king’s face</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.25.3"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.25">52:25</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">the people of the land</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.52.29.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.29">52:29</a></span> Some Hb mss, Syr add <span class="italic">he deported</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Jeremiah.52" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.2">52:2</a></span> 2Kg 23:34–24:6; 2Ch 36:4–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.1">52:1-3</a></span> 2Kg 24:18–20; 2Ch 36:11–13</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.7">52:7</a></span> Dt 2:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.4">52:4-11</a></span> 2Kg 25:1–7; Jr 39:1–7</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.13">52:13-14</a></span> 2Ch 36:19</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.16.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.12">52:12-16</a></span> 2Kg 25:8–12; Jr 39:8–10</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.17.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.17">52:17</a></span> 1Kg 7:23,27</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.19.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.19">52:19</a></span> Ex 25:29; 37:16; Nm 4:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.22.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.22">52:22</a></span> 1Kg 7:16–20,41–42; 2Ch 4:12–13</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.27.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.17">52:17-27</a></span> 2Kg 25:13–21</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.28.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.28">52:28</a></span> 2Kg 24:12–16</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.52.34.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.52.31">52:31-34</a></span> 2Kg 25:27–30</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Jeremiah.52" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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