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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 52
Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began
to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter
of Jerernias of Lobna.
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord,
according to all that Joakim had done.
For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and
against Juda, till he cast t hem out from his presence:
and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon.
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign,
in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that
Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all
his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and
built forts against it round about.
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of
king Sedecias.
And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month,
a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food
for the people of the land.
And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled,
and went out of the city in the night by the way of
the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth
to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city
round about, ) sad they went by the way that leadeth
to the wilderness.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king:
and they overtook Sedecias in the desert which is near
Jericho: and all his companions were scattered from
him.
And when they had taken the king, they carried him to
the king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land
of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before
his eyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha.
And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with
fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon,
and he put him in prison till the day of his death.
And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month,
the same is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king
of Babylon, came Nabuzardan the general of the army,
who stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem.
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house,
and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house
he burnt with fire.
And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the
general broke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.
But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some
of the poor people, and of the rest of the common sort
who remained in the city, and of the fugitives that
were fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest
of the multitude.
But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general
left some for vinedressers, and for husbandmen.
The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars
that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and
the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord:
and they carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
And they took the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and
the psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars,
and all the brazen vessels that had been used in the
ministry: and
The general took away the pitchers, and the censers,
and the pots, and the basins, and the candlesticks,
and the mortars, and the cups: as many as were of gold,
in gold: and as many as were of silver, in silver:
And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of
brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon
had made in the house of the Lord: there was no weight
of the brass of all these vessels.
And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen
cubits high: and a cord of twelve cubits compassed it
about: but the thickness thereof was four fingers, and
it was hollow within.
And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height
of one chapiter was five cubits: and network, and pomegranates
were upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The
same of the second pillar, and the pomegranates.
And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down:
and the pomegranates being a hundred in all, were compassed
with network.
And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias
the second priest, and the three keepers of the entry.
He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief
over the men of war: and seven men of them that were
near the king's person, that were found in the city:
and a scribe, an officer of the army who exercised the
young soldiers: and threescore men of the people of
the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
And Nabuzardan the general took them, and brought them
to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.
And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to
death in Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was
carried away captive out of his land.
This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away
captive : in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three
Jews.
In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred
and thirty-two souls from Jerusalem.
In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan
the general carried away of the Jews seven hundred and
forty-five souls. So all the souls were four thousand
six hundred.
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year
of the captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth
month, the five and twentieth day of the month, that
Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his
reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda, and
brought him forth out of prison.
And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above
the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread
before him always all the days of his life.
And for his diet a continual provision was allowed him
by the king of Babylon, every day a portion, until the
day of his death, all the days of his life. |
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