2 Kings 25
25:1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his kingdom, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his force, against Jerusalem. And he camped about it, and built upon it a rampart round about.
25:2And the city became for being encompassed about until the eleventh year of Zedekiah the king, the ninth of the month.
25:3And the hunger grew in strength in the city, and there was no bread to the people of the land.
25:4And the city was torn through, and all the men of war went forth by night in the way of the gate between the walls, which is of the garden of the king. (And the Chaldeans were upon the city round about;) and they went the way, the one unto the descent.
25:5And the force of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and they overtook him by the descent of Jericho; and all his force were dispersed from about him.
25:6And they seized the king, and they led him to the king of Babylon in Riblah. And he spoke against him a judgment.
25:7And he slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And the eyes of Zedekiah he blinded, and he tied him in shackles, and led him unto Babylon.
25:8And in the fifth month, the seventh of the month, this is the nineteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nabuzar-adan, the chief guard, the one standing in the presence of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.
25:9And he burned the house of the lord, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great house he burned by fire.
25:10And the wall of Jerusalem round about the force of the Chaldeans tore down.
25:11And the extra ones of the people being left behind in the city, and the ones falling in who fell in with the king of Babylon, and the rest of the support Nabuzar-adan the chief guard removed.
25:12And of the poor of the land the chief guard left behind as vine dressers and farmers.
25:13And the columns, of the ones of brass, of the ones in the house of the lord, and the bases, and the brass sea, the one in the house of the lord, the Chaldeans cut up, and they carried their brass unto Babylon.
25:14And the kettles, and the shovels, and the bowls, and the incense pans, and all the items of brass in which they officiated with them, he took.
25:15And the censers, and the bowls, the ones of gold, and the ones of silver, the chief guard took.
25:16The two columns, and the one sea, and the bases which Solomon made for the house of the lord. There was no measuring the weight of the brass of all the items.
25:17Eighteen cubits was the height of the one column, and the capital upon it of brass. Three cubits was the height of the capital. And the lattice work and pomegranates upon the capital round about were entirely of brass. And according to these it was to the second column upon the lattice work.
25:18And the chief guard took Seraiah the foremost priest, and Zephaniah the second rank priest, and the three guarding the money;
25:19and from out of the city he took one eunuch who was supervisor of the men warriors, and five men of the ones appearing in front of the king, of the ones being found in the city, and the scribe of the ruler of the force, the one arraying the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land being found in the city.
25:20And Nabuzar-adan the chief guard took them, and he led them away to the king of Babylon in Riblah.
25:21And the king of Babylon smote them, and killed them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he resettled Judah from its land.
25:22And over the people being left behind in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he placed over it Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.
25:23And all the rulers of the force heard, they and their men, that the king of Babylon placed Gedaliah in charge. And they came to Gedaliah in Mizpah -- even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Careah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maachathite, they and their men.
25:24And Gedaliah swore by an oath to them, and to their men, and said to them, Do not fear the passing by of the Chaldeans! Settle in the land, and serve the king of Babylon! and it will be well to you.
25:25And it came to pass in the seventh month, came Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the seed of the kingdom, and ten men with him. And he struck Gedaliah and he died, even the Jews, and the Chaldeans who were with him in Mizpah.
25:26And all the people rose up from small unto great, and the rulers of the force, and they entered into Egypt; for they feared from the face of the Chaldeans.
25:27And it came to pass in the thirtieth and seventh year of the resettlement of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, seventh and twentieth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon raised up high in the first year of his kingdom the head of Jehoiachin the king of Judah, and he led him from out of the house of the prison.
25:28And he spoke with him for good, and put his throne above the thrones of the kings with him in Babylon.
25:29And he changed the garments of his prison, and he ate bread always in his presence all the days of his life.
25:30And his feasting was a feasting always given to him from out of the house of the king -- a day's reckoning in his day, all the days of his life.