Jeremiah 52
52
The Fall of Jerusalem
1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of #A different man from the prophet and author of this book.Jeremiah of Libnah. 2He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord like all that Jehoiakim had done. 3For all this came about in Jerusalem and Judah because of the anger of the Lord, and [in the end] He cast them from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they camped against it and built moveable towers and siege mounds all around it. 5So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7Then the city was broken into, and all the soldiers fled. They left the city at night [as Ezekiel prophesied] passing through the gate between the two walls by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They fled by way of the Arabah (the Jordan Valley). 8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and his entire army was scattered from him. 9Then they seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the [Syrian] land of Hamath [on the northern border of Israel], where he pronounced sentence on him. 10The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah at Riblah. 11Then the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon and there he put him in prison #The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) translates this word “mill.” This may imply that the Chaldeans treated Zedekiah in his old age to the same fate Samson suffered when he was a Philistine captive (Judg 16:21).[in a mill] until the day of his death.
12Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13He burned down the house of the Lord and the king’s palace and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house or important structure he set on fire. 14So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took away into exile some of the poorest of the people, those who were left in the city [at the time it was captured], along with those who deserted to join the king of Babylon [during the siege] and the rest of the artisans. 16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.
17Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the pillars of bronze which belonged to the house of the Lord, and the bronze pedestals [which supported the ten basins] and the [enormous] bronze Sea, which were in the house of the Lord, and carried all the bronze to Babylon. 18They also took away the pots [for carrying away ashes] and the shovels and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. 19The captain of the guard also took away the [small] bowls and the firepans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the incense cups and the bowls for the drink offerings—whatever was made of fine gold and whatever was made of fine silver. 20The two pillars, the one [enormous] Sea (basin), and #King Ahaz had previously removed the twelve bronze bulls (1 Kin 7:25) from under the big basin and had replaced them with a substructure of stone (2 Kin 16:17), but unfortunately he had not put them beyond the reach of the Chaldeans.the twelve bronze bulls under the Sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord—the bronze of all these things was beyond weighing. 21Concerning the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits (twenty-seven feet), and a line [an ornamental molding] of twelve cubits (eighteen feet) went around its circumference; it was four fingers thick, and [the pillar was] hollow. 22A capital of bronze was on [top of] it. The height of each capital was five cubits (seven and one-half feet), with a lattice-work and pomegranates around it, all of bronze. The second pillar also, with its pomegranates, was similar to these. 23There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; and a hundred pomegranates were on the lattice-work all around.
24Then the captain of the guard took [as prisoners] Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three doorkeepers. 25He also took out of the city one official who was overseer of the soldiers, and seven of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men who were still in the city. 26Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27Then 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 own land.
28This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive and exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, [he took captive] 832 persons from Jerusalem; 30in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the [Babylonian] guard took captive 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.
31Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin [also called Coniah and Jeconiah] king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, #Lit lifted up the head of.showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. 32He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne above the thrones of the kings who were [captives] with him in Babylon. 33Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table all the days of his life. 34And his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion [according to his needs] until the day of his death, #The purpose of these last few words may be to avoid ending the book with the word “death.” The general purpose of the last four verses seems to have been to leave the reader with the comforting thought that even in exile the Lord remembered His people and softened the heart of the conqueror toward David’s descendant. Note also the contrast between Zedekiah, who remained in prison until his death (v 11), and Jehoiachin, who was set free and treated with honor until his death.all the days of his life.
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Jeremiah 52
52
The Fall of Jerusalem
1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old#Literally “a son of twenty-one year” at his beginning to reign, and he reigned eleven years#Hebrew “year” in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh like all that Jehoiakim had done. 3For because of the anger#Literally “nose” of Yahweh this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until his casting them from his presence.#Literally “face” And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4And then#Literally “And it was” in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against Jerusalem, he and all his army. And they laid siege to it, and built siege works#Literally “siege work” against it all around. 5So the city came under siege#Literally “into the siege” until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land. 7Then the city was breached, and all the soldiers#Literally “the men of the battle” fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls that are at the garden of the king, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went in the direction of the Jordan Valley.#Or “Arabah” 8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.#Literally “he spoke to him judgments” 10And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah. 11Then he made blind the eyes of Zedekiah, and they tied him up with bronze fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon. And he put him in prison#Literally “the house of the watch” until the day of his death.
12Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,#Hebrew “guards” who stood before#Literally “to the face of” the king of Babylon, entered into Jerusalem. 13And he burned the temple#Literally “house” of Yahweh, and the palace#Or “house” of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire. 14And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard#Hebrew “guards” broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. 15And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard#Hebrew “guards” deported some of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon, along with the rest of the craftsmen. 16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard#Hebrew “guards” left some of the poor of the land to serve as vinedressers and farmers.
17And the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the temple#Literally “house” of Yahweh, and the kettle stands and the sea of bronze that were in the temple#Literally “house” of Yahweh, and they carried all their bronze to Babylon. 18And they took with them the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pans, and all the vessels of bronze which were used in temple service. 19And the captain of the guard#Hebrew “guards” took the bowls, and the firepans, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the pans, and the libation bowls, those made of solid gold#Literally “which gold gold” and those made of solid silver.#Literally “which silver silver” 20The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the temple#Literally “house” of Yahweh—there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels! 21Now the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits,#Hebrew “cubit” and a thread of twelve cubits#Hebrew “cubit” surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollowed out. 22And a capital upon it was bronze and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital on all sides, all of bronze. And like these was the second pillar with pomegranates. 23And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides;#Literally “breath” all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides were a hundred.
24Then the captain of the guard#Hebrew “guards” took Seraiah the chief priest,#Literally “the priest of the head” and Zephaniah the second priest,#Literally “the priest of the second” and three keepers of the threshold. 25And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over the soldiers,#Literally “the men of the battle” and seven men of the king’s advisors#Literally “those who see the face of the king” who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men#Hebrew “man” of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard#Hebrew “guards” took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land.
28This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans; 29in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two persons#Hebrew “person” from Jerusalem; 30in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,#Hebrew “guards” deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons;#Hebrew “person” there were four thousand six hundred persons#Hebrew “person” in all.
An Allowance for Jehoiachin
31And then#Literally “and it was” in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, the king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and brought him out from prison.#Literally “the house of the imprisonment” 32Then he spoke with him kindly and gave his seat above the seats#Hebrew “seat” of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 33So he changed the garments of his imprisonment and he ate food before him#Literally “to the face of him” continually all the days of his life. 34And his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon on a daily basis#Literally “a matter of a day in its day” all the days of his life up to the day of his death.
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