II Kings Chapter 25

II Kings Chapter 25
1 And in the ninth year of his reign, the
tenth month and tenth day of the month
Neb-u-chad-nezzar king of Babylon
came, he, and all his host against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and
they built forts against it round about it.
2 So the city was besieged unto the
eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And
the ninth day of the month the famine
was sore in the city, so that there was no
bread for the people of the land.
4 Then the city was broken up, and all
the men of war fled by night, by the way
of the gate, which is between two walls
that was by the king's garden: now the
Chaldeans were by the city round about:
and the king went by the way of the
wilderness.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued
after the king, and took him in the deserts
of Jericho, and all his host was scattered
from him.
6 Then they took the king, and carried
him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah,
where they gave judgment upon him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and put out the eyes of
Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and
carried him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, and seventh day
of the month, which was the nineteenth
year of king Neb-u-chad-nezzar king of
Babylon, came Neb-uzaradan chief
steward and servant of the king of
Babylon, to Jerusalem, 9 And burned the
house of the Lord, and the king's house,
and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all
the great houses burned he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans
that were with the chief steward, break
down the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
11 And the rest of the people that were
left in the city, and those that were fled
and fallen to the king of Babylon, with
the remnant of the multitude, did
Nebuzar-adan chief steward carry away
captive. 12 But the chief steward left of
the poor of the land to dress the vines,
and to till the land.
13 Also the pillars of brass that were in
the house of the Lord, and the bases, and
the brazen sea that was in the house of
the Lord, did the Chaldeans break, and
carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14 The pots also and the besoms, and the
instruments of music, and the incense
dishes, and all the vessels of brass that
they ministered in, took they away.
15 And the ash pans, and the basins, and
all that was of gold, and that was of
silver, took the chief steward away,
16 With 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 thereon was
brass, and the height of the chapiter was
with network three cubits, and
pomegranates upon the chapiter round
about, all of brass: and likewise was the
second pillar with the network.
18 And the chief steward took Seraiah
the chief priest, and Zephaniah the
second priest, and the three keepers of
the door.
19 And out of the city he took an eunuch
that had the oversight of the men of war,
and five men of them that were in the
king's presence, which were found in the
city, and Sopher captain of the host, who
mustered the people of the land, and
threescore men of the people of the land,
that were found in the city. 20 And Nebuzar-
adan the chief steward took them,
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
captive out of his own land. 22 Howbeit
there remained people in the land of
Judah, whom Neb-u-chadnezzar king of
Babylon left, and made Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ruler over
them.
23 Then when all the captains of the host
and their men heard, that the king of
Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, to wit,
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah
the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite,
and Jaazaniah the son of Maachathi, they
and their men.
24 And Gedaliah swear to them, and to
their men, and said unto them, Fear not
to be the servants of the Chaldeans:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon, and ye shall be well.
25 But in the seventh month Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of
the king's seed, came, and ten men with
him, and smote Gedaliah, and he died,
and so did he the Jews, and the
Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
26 Then all the people both small and
great, and the captains of the army arose,
and came to Egypt: for they were afraid
of the Chaldeans. 27 Notwithstanding in
the seven and thirtieth year after
Jehoiachin king of Judah was carried
away, in the twelfth month and the seven
and twentieth day of the month, Evilmerodach
king of Babylon in the year
that he began to reign, did lift up the
head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of
the prison,
28 And 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 continually eat bread before
him, all the days of his life.
30 And his portion was a continual
portion given him by the king, every day
a certain, all the days of his life.