King James Version

1 He was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Hamital, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For the anger of the Lord was against Jerusalem and Judah until he cast them out of his presence, and Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they camped against it, and they built a siege wall against it all around. 5 And the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 And the city was breached, and all the men of war fled, and they went out of the city at night by the way of the gate between the two walls which is by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, and they went by the way of the Arabah. 8 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9 And they seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he spoke with him judgments. 10 And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also all the officials of Judah he killed at Riblah. 11 And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains and brought him to the king of Babylon in Babylon, and he put him in the house of custody until the day of his death. 12 In the fifth month, which is the month of Av, it is the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, that Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, came before the king of Babylon to Jerusalem. 13 And he burned the house of the LORD and the house of the king and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burned with fire. 14 And all the walls of Jerusalem all around, the whole army of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard broke down. 15 And from the doors of the people and the rest of the people who remained in the city and the fallen ones who fell to King Babylon and the rest of the mighty ones Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled. 16 And Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, left the doors of the land for the vine dressers and for the gatherers. 17 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord and the bases and the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. 18 And the pots and the pans and the singing bowls and the basins and the cups and all the implements of bronze that they served with them they took. 19 And the cups and the pots and the basins and the cauldrons and the lamps and the bowls and the dishes that were gold, gold, and those that were silver, silver, many cooks took. 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve bronze oxen that were under the base that King Solomon made for the house of the LORD had no weight for the bronze of all these vessels. 21 And the pillars were eighteen cubits in height, the height of one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits encircled it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollow. 22 And the crown upon it was of bronze, and the height of the crown was five cubits, and a network and pomegranates upon the crown all around of bronze, and like these for the second pillar and pomegranates. 23 And there were ninety-six pomegranates; six had a blossom, all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around. 24 And the chief of the executioners took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold. 25 And from the city a eunuch was taken, one who was in charge of the men of war, and seven men from those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city, and the scribe, the chief of the army, who was mustering the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26 And Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them and went to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 And he struck them, the king of Babylon, and he died at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and Judah was exiled from its land. 28 This is the people that Nebuchadnezzar exiled in the year seven thousand and twenty-three. 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, from Jerusalem, eight hundred thirty-two souls. 30 In the year of three and twenty, Nebuchadnezzar sent Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, to bring the Jews, seven hundred forty-five souls, all the souls four thousand and six hundred. 31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of the house of prison. 32 And he spoke to him good things and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon. 33 And he shall change his garments, and he shall eat bread before me always all the days of his life. 34 And his meal, the daily meal, was given to him by the king of Babylon, a word for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.