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Nebuchadnezzar
Besieges Jerusalem |
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2 Kings 25:1
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Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth
day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army,
against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. |
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| 2 Kings 25:2 |
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So the city was under siege until the eleventh
year of King Zedekiah. |
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| 2 Kings 25:3 |
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On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. |
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| 2 Kings 25:4 |
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Then the city was broken into, and all the men
of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king's
garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of
the Arabah. |
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| 2 Kings 25:5 |
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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king
and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from
him. |
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| 2 Kings 25:6 |
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Then they captured the king and brought him
to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him. |
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| 2 Kings 25:7 |
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They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before
his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters
and brought him to Babylon. |
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Jerusalem
Burned and Plundered |
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| 2 Kings 25:8 |
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Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which
was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Kings 25:9 |
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He burned the house of the LORD, the king's
house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with
fire. |
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| 2 Kings 25:10 |
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So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with
the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Kings 25:11 |
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Then the rest of the people who were left in
the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest
of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile. |
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| 2 Kings 25:12 |
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But the captain of the guard left some of the
poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen. |
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| 2 Kings 25:13 |
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Now the bronze pillars which were in the house
of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea which were in the house of the
LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. |
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| 2 Kings 25:14 |
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They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers,
the spoons, and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service. |
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| 2 Kings 25:15 |
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The captain of the guard also took away the
firepans and the basins, what was fine gold and what was fine silver. |
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| 2 Kings 25:16 |
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The two pillars, the one sea, and the stands
which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD-the bronze of all these vessels
was beyond weight. |
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| 2 Kings 25:17 |
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The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,
and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with
a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second
pillar was like these with network. |
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| 2 Kings 25:18 |
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Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple. |
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| 2 Kings 25:19 |
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From the city he took one official who was overseer
of the men of war, and five of the king's advisers who were found in the city;
and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land;
and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. |
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| 2 Kings 25:20 |
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Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them
and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. |
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| 2 Kings 25:21 |
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Then the king of Babylon struck them down and
put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into
exile from its land. |
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Gedaliah
Made Governor |
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| 2 Kings 25:22 |
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Now as for the people who were left in the land
of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan over them. |
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| 2 Kings 25:23 |
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When all the captains of the forces, they and
their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they
came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan
the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah
the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. |
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| 2 Kings 25:24 |
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Gedaliah swore to them and their men and said
to them, "Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans; live in the land
and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you." |
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| 2 Kings 25:25 |
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But it came about in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with
ten men and struck Gedaliah down so that he died along with the Jews and the Chaldeans
who were with him at Mizpah. |
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| 2 Kings 25:26 |
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Then all the people, both small and great, and
the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the
Chaldeans. |
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| 2 Kings 25:27 |
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Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year
of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh
day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became
king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison; |
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| 2 Kings 25:28 |
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and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne
above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. |
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| 2 Kings 25:29 |
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Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had
his meals in the king's presence regularly all the days of his life; |
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| 2 Kings 25:30 |
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and for his allowance, a regular allowance was
given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life. |
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