Jeremiah 52 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Fall of Jerusalem

(2Ki 24:18—25:26; 2Ch 36:11–20; Jer 39:1–10 )

Jer 52:1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Jer 52:2

Jer 52:2And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

Jer 52:3

Jer 52:3And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

Jer 52:4

Jer 52:4And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.

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Jer 52:5So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Jer 52:6

Jer 52:6In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

Jer 52:7

Jer 52:7Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.

Jer 52:8

Jer 52:8And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.

Jer 52:9

Jer 52:9Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.

Jer 52:10

Jer 52:10And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.

Jer 52:11

Jer 52:11And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Jer 52:12

Jer 52:12Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.

Jer 52:13

Jer 52:13And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:

Jer 52:14

Jer 52:14And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

Jer 52:15

Jer 52:15Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who were still in the town, and those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the workmen.

Jer 52:16

Jer 52:16But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.

Jer 52:17

Jer 52:17And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.

Jer 52:18

Jer 52:18And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.

Jer 52:19

Jer 52:19And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the spoons and the wide basins; the gold of the gold vessels, and the silver of the silver vessels, the captain of the armed men took away.

Jer 52:20

Jer 52:20The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Jer 52:21

Jer 52:21And 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.

Jer 52:22

Jer 52:22And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.

Jer 52:23

Jer 52:23There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundred.

Jer 52:24

Jer 52:24And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;

Jer 52:25

Jer 52:25And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.

Jer 52:26

Jer 52:26These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Jer 52:27

Jer 52:27And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land.

Jer 52:28

Jer 52:28These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:

Jer 52:29

Jer 52:29And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons:

Jer 52:30

Jer 52:30In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

(2Ki 25:27–30 )

Jer 52:31

Jer 52:31And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison.

Jer 52:32

Jer 52:32And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jer 52:33

Jer 52:33And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.

Jer 52:34

Jer 52:34And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

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Jeremiah 52 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Fall of Jerusalem

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