Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Kings: Chapter 25
1. AND it
came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the
tenth day of the month, that Neb-u-chad-nez-zar king of Babylon came,
he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it: and
they built forts against it round about.
2. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zed-e-ki-ah.
3. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the
city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4. And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by
the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden:
(now the Chal-dees were against the city round about:) and the king went
the way toward the plain.
5. And the army of the Chal-dees pursued after the king, and overtook
him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
6. So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to
Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
7. And they slew the sons of Zed-e-ki-ah before his eyes, and put out
the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried
him to Babylon.
8. And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the
nineteenth year of king Neb-u-chad-nez-zar king of Babylon, came Neb-u-zar-ad-an,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9. And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
10. And all the army of the Chal-dees, that were with the captain of the
guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11. Now the rest of the people that were left in the city , and the
fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the
multitude, did Neb-u-zar-ad-an the captain of the guard carry away.
12. But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be
vinedressers and husbandmen.
13. And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the
bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD,
did the Chal-dees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
Babylon.
14. And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and
all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15. And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in
gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
16. The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for
the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without
weight.
17. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter
upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the
wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of
brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
18. And the captain of the guard took Se-rai-ah the chief priest, and
Zeph-a-ni-ah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
19. And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of
war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were
found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered
the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land
that were found in the city:
20. And Neb-u-zar-ad-an captain of the guard took these, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
21. And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the
land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
22. And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
Neb-u-chad-nez-zar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made
Ged-a-li-ah the son of A-hi-kam, the son of Sha-phan, ruler.
23. And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard
that the king of Babylon had made Ged-a-li-ah governor, there came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Neth-a-ni-ah, and Jo-ha-nan
the son of Ca-re-ah, and Se-rai-ah the son of Tan-hu-meth the
Ne-toph-a-thite, and Ja-az-a-ni-ah the son of a Ma-ach-a-thite, they and
their men.
24. And Ged-a-ki-ah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them,
Fear not to be the servants of the Chal-dees: dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Neth-a-ni-ah, the son of E-li-sha-ma, of the seed royal, came, and ten
men with him, and smote Ged-a-li-ah, that he died, and the Jews and the
Chal-dees that were with him at Mizpah.
26. And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the
armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chal-dees.
27. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Je-hoi-a-chin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, that E-vil-mer-o-dach king of Babylon in the
year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of
Judah out of prison;
28. And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
29. And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually
before him all the days of his life.
30. And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a
daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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