Verse 21
Jeremiah 52:21
Bible in Basic English
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And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָ/עַמּוּדִ֗ים שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה אַמָּה֙ קומה קוֹמַת֙ הָ/עַמֻּ֣ד הָ/אֶחָ֔ד וְ/ח֛וּט שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה אַמָּ֖ה יְסֻבֶּ֑/נּוּ וְ/עָבְי֛/וֹ אַרְבַּ֥ע אַצְבָּע֖וֹת נָבֽוּב
English Translation
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.
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Chapter 52 Context
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: an...
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And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
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And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them a...
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And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Baby...
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So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, s...
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Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the t...
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And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and a...
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Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of H...
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And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all t...
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And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Bab...
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Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar...
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And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every gr...
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And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
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Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who we...
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But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the land go on living there, to ta...
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And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass...
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And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessel...
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And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the...
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The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten...
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And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, a...
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And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and app...
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There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundre...
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And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, a...
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And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's n...
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These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prison...
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These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and...
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And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred...
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In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as...
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And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twel...
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And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were wit...
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And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest o...
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And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the re...
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