2 Kings 25 KJV
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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. Nebuchadnezzar attacks Jerusalem Reign of Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar Babylon Jerusalem
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. Reign of Zedekiah Zedekiah Jerusalem
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. Reign of Zedekiah
¶ 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 Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain. Reign of Zedekiah Arabah Chaldea
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. Reign of Zedekiah Arabah Chaldea Jericho
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. Reign of Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar Babylon Riblah
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. Reign of Zedekiah Zedekiah Babylon
¶ And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzar-adan Nebuzaradan Babylon Jerusalem
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. Destruction of Solomon's Temple (the house of the LORD) by Nebuzaradan God Jerusalem
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 Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away. Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzar-adan Nebuzaradan Babylon
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
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.
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.
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:
And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzar-adan Nebuzaradan Babylon Riblah
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. Nebuchadnezzar Judah Babylon Riblah Hamath
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. Nebuchadnezzar Gedaliah Hoshaiah Ishmael Jezaniah Johanan Kareah Nethaniah Seraiah Tanhumeth Babylon Maacah Mizpah Netophah
And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you. Nebuchadnezzar Gedaliah Babylon Chaldea
¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; Judah Evil-merodach Jehoiachin Babylon
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon; Babylon
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. Babylon
And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.