chapter_2_Kings 25
2 Kings 25:1: And it cometh to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encampeth against it, and buildeth against it a fortification round about. 2 Kings 25:2: And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah, 2 Kings 25:3: on the ninth of the month &#8212; when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land, 2 Kings 25:4: then the city is broken up, and all the men of war go by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that are by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans are against the city round about, and the king goeth the way of the plain. 2 Kings 25:5: And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him; 2 Kings 25:6: and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him &#8212; judgment. 2 Kings 25:7: And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon. 2 Kings 25:8: And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month (it is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners, servant of the king of Babylon, come to Jerusalem, 2 Kings 25:9: and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, yea, every great house he hath burned with fire; 2 Kings 25:10: and the walls of Jerusalem round about have all the forces of the Chaldeans, who are with the chief of the executioners, broken down. 2 Kings 25:11: And the rest of the people, those left in the city, and those falling who have fallen to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners removed; 2 Kings 25:12: and of the poor of the land hath the chief of the executioners left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen. 2 Kings 25:13: And the pillars of brass that are in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the sea of brass, that is in the house of Jehovah, have the Chaldeans broken in pieces, and bear away their brass to Babylon. 2 Kings 25:14: And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they minister they have taken, 2 Kings 25:15: and the fire-pans, and the bowls that are wholly of silver, hath the chief of the executioners taken. 2 Kings 25:16: The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels; 2 Kings 25:17: eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and the chapiter on it is of brass, and the height of the chapiter is three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates are on the chapiter round about &#8212; the whole is of brass; and like these hath the second pillar, with the net. 2 Kings 25:18: And the chief of the executioners taketh Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold, 2 Kings 25:19: and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch who is appointed over the men of war, and five men of those seeing the king's face who have been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who are found in the city, 2 Kings 25:20: and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners taketh them, and causeth them to go unto the king of Babylon, to Libnah, 2 Kings 25:21: and the king of Babylon smiteth them, and putteth them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removeth Judah from off its land. 2 Kings 25:22: And the people that is left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath left &#8212; he appointeth over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan. 2 Kings 25:23: And all the heads of the forces hear &#8212; they and the men &#8212; that the king of Babylon hath appointed Gedaliah, and they come in unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah, even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maachathite &#8212; they and their men; 2 Kings 25:24: and Gedaliah sweareth to them, and to their men, and saith to them, 'Be not afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans, dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it is good for you.' 2 Kings 25:25: And it cometh to pass, in the seventh month, come hath Ishmael son of Nathaniah, son of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom, and ten men with him, and they smite Gedaliah, and he dieth, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who have been with him in Mizpah. 2 Kings 25:26: And all the people rise, from small even unto great, and the heads of the forces, and come in to Egypt, for they have been afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans. 2 Kings 25:27: And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint, 2 Kings 25:28: and speaketh with him good things and putteth his throne above the throne of the kings who are with him in Babylon, 2 Kings 25:29: and hath changed the garments of his restraint, and he hath eaten bread continually before him all days of his life, 2 Kings 25:30: and his allowance &#8212; a continual allowance &#8212; hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.
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