Jeremiah 52

Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Amitaal, daughter of Jeremias, from Lobena.

And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nabouchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his force, against Jerusalem; and they encircled it with a palisade and built around it with squared stones all around.

And the city came into distress until the eleventh year of king Sedekias.

On the ninth of the month the famine grew severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

And the city was broken into, and all the men of war went out by night by the way of the gate between the wall and the outer wall, which was by the king's garden — and the Chaldeans were around the city — and they went the way toward Araba.

And the force of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the region beyond Jericho, and all his servants were scattered from him.

And they seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Deblatha, and he pronounced judgment upon him.

And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Sedekias before his eyes, and all the rulers of Judah he slaughtered at Deblatha.

And he blinded the eyes of Sedekias and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and put him in the mill house until the day he died.

And in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, Nabouzardan the chief cook, who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

And he burned the house of the Lord and the house of the king and all the houses of the city; and every great house he burned with fire.

And the force of the Chaldeans that was with the chief cook tore down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.

But the chief cook left behind some of the rest of the people to be vinedressers and farmers.

And the bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the bronze sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and they took their bronze and carried it away to Babylon.

And they took the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh hooks, and all the bronze vessels with which they used to minister;

and the chief cook took the saphphoth and the masmaroth and the pourers and the lampstands and the censers and the cups — whatever was gold, as gold, and whatever was silver, as silver.

And the two pillars and the one sea and the twelve bronze oxen underneath the sea, which king Salomon made for the house of the Lord — there was no weighing of their bronze.

As for the pillars: the height of the one pillar was thirty-five cubits, and a cord of twelve cubits encircled it, and its thickness was four fingers round about.

And upon them was a bronze cornice; and the length, the projection of the one cornice, was five cubits; and there was a network and pomegranates upon the cornice round about, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these: eight pomegranates to the cubit, for the twelve cubits.

And the pomegranates were ninety-six on the one side, and all the pomegranates upon the network round about were one hundred.

And the chief cook took the first priest and the second priest and the three who guarded the way,

and one eunuch who was overseer of the men of war, and seven men of renown who were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the forces who enrolled the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

And Nabouzardan the chief cook took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Deblatha.

And the king of Babylon struck them down at Deblatha in the land of Aimath.

And it happened in the thirty-seventh year after Joakim king of Judah was carried away, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fourth of the month, that Oulaimaradach king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joakim king of Judah and brought him out of the house where he was being kept under guard.

And he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

And he changed his prison garment; and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.

And his allowance was given him continually by the king of Babylon, day by day, until the day he died.