1So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign,…
2And the city was kept under siege until…
3By the ninth day of the fourth month,…
4Then the city was breached; and though the…
5but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the…
6The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him…
7And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before…
8On the seventh day of the fifth month,…
9He burned down the house of the LORD,…
10And the whole army of the Chaldeans under…
11Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into…
12But the captain of the guard left behind…
13Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars…
14They also took away the pots, shovels, wick…
15The captain of the guard also took away…
16As for the two pillars, the Sea, and…
17Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze…
18The captain of the guard also took away…
19Of those still in the city, he took…
20Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and…
21There at Riblah in the land of Hamath,…
22Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of…
23When all the commanders of the armies and…
24And Gedaliah took an oath before them and…
25In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of…
26Then all the people small and great, together…
27On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month…
28And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set…
29So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes,…
30And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion…
