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Chapter 52 Zedekiah was one and twenty
years old when he began to reign,

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and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

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And his mother's name was Hamutel,
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libna.

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And he did that which was evil in the eyes
of the Lord, according to all that

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Jehoiakim had done.

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For through the anger of the Lord it came
to pass in Jerusalem and Judah,

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till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against

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the king of Babylon.

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And it came to pass in the ninth year of
his reign, in the tenth month,

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in the tenth day of the month,
that Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon,

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came, he and all his army, against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it,

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and built forts against it round about.

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So the city was besieged until the
eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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And in the fourth month, in the ninth day
of the month, the famine was sore in the

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city, so that there was no bread for the
people of the land.

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Then the city was broken up, and all the
men of Wharfe led, and went forth out of

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the city by night, by the way of the gate
between the two walls, which was by the

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king's garden.

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Now the Chaldeans were by the city round
about, and they went by the way of the

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plain.

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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued
after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in

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the plains of Jericho, and all his army
was scattered from him.

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Then they took the king, and carried him
up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah,

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in the land of Hamath, where he gave
judgment upon him.

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And the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Zedekiah before his eyes.

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He slew also all the princes of Judah in
Riblah.

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Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah,
and the king of Babylon bound him in

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chains, and carried him to Babylon,
and put him in prison till the day of his

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death.

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Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day
of the month, which was the nineteenth

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year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
came Nebuchadrezzar, captain of the guard,

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which served the king of Babylon in
Jerusalem, and burned the house of the

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Lord, and the king's house, and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of

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the great men, burned he with fire.

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And all the army of the Chaldeans,
that were with the captain of the guard,

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break down all the walls of Jerusalem
round about.

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Then Nebuchadrezzar, the captain of the
guard, carried away captive, certain of

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the poor of the people, and the residue of
the people that remained in the city,

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and those that fell away, that fell to the
king of Babylon, and the rest of the

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multitude.

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But Nebuchadrezzar, the captain of the
guard, left certain of the poor of the

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land, for vinedressers, and for
husbandmen.

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Also the pillars of brass that were in the
house of the Lord, and the bases,

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and the brass and sea that was in the
house of the Lord, the Chaldeans break,

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and carried all the brass of them to
Babylon.

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The cauldrons also, and the shovels,
and the snuffers, and the bowls,

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and the spoons, and all the vessels of
brass, wherewith they ministered,

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took they away.

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And the basins, and the firepans,
and the bowls, and the cauldrons,

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and the candlesticks, and the spoons,
and the cups, that which was of gold in

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gold, and that which was of silver in
silver, took the captain of the guard

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away.

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The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brass
and bowls, that were under the bases,

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which King Solomon had made in the house
of the Lord, the brass of all these

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vessels was without weight.

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And concerning the pillars, the height of
one pillar was eighteen cubits,

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and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass
it, and the thickness thereof was four

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fingers, it was hollow, and a chapter of
brass was upon it, and the height of one

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chapter was five cubits, with a network
and pomegranates upon the chapters round

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about, all of brass.

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The second pillar also, and the
pomegranates, were like unto these.

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And there were ninety and six pomegranates
on a side, and all the pomegranates upon

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the network were in hundred round about.

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And the captain of the guard took Saraiah
the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second

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priest, and the three keepers of the door.

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He took also out of the city an eunuch,
which had the charge of the men of war,

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and seven men of them, that were near the
king's person, which were found in the

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city, and the principal scribe of the
host, who mustered the people of the land,

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and threescore men of the people of the
land, that were found in the midst of the

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city.

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So Nebuchadrezzar the captain of the guard
took them, and brought them to the king of

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Babylon, to Riblah.

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And the king of Babylon smote them,
and put them to death in Riblah,

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in the land of Hamath.

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Thus Judah was carried away captive out of
his own land.

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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar
carried away captive, in the seventh year

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three thousand Jews and three and twenty.

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In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar
he carried away captive from Jerusalem

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eight hundred thirty and two persons.

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In the three and twentieth year of
Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar the captain

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of the guard carried away captive of the
Jews seven hundred forty and five persons.

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All the persons were four thousand and six
hundred.

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And it came to pass in the seven and
thirtieth year of the captivity of

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Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, in the five and twentieth day of

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the month, that evil Meroduk, king of
Babylon, in the first year of his reign,

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lifted up the head of Jehoiachin,
king of Judah, and brought him forth out

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of prison, and spake kindly unto him,
and set his throne above the throne of the

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kings that were with him in Babylon,
and changed his prison garments.

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And he did continually eat bread before
him all the days of his life, and for his

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diet there was a continual diet given him
of the king of Babylon, every day a

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portion until the day of his death,
all the days of his life.