1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became…
2And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of…
3For because of the anger of the LORD,…
4So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign,…
5And the city was kept under siege until…
6By the ninth day of the fourth month,…
7Then the city was breached; and though the…
8but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the…
9The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him…
10There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered…
11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him…
12On the tenth day of the fifth month,…
13He burned down the house of the LORD,…
14And the whole army of the Chaldeans under…
15Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into…
16But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind…
17Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars…
18They also took away the pots, shovels, wick…
19The captain of the guard also took away…
20As for the two pillars, the Sea, the…
21Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve…
22The bronze capital atop one pillar was five…
23Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides,…
24The captain of the guard also took away…
25Of those still in the city, he took…
26Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and…
27There at Riblah in the land of Hamath,…
28These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in…
29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
30in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the…
31On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month…
32And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set…
33So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes,…
34And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a…
