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Jeremiah 52 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Fall of Jerusalem

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

Jer 52:1

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

Jer 52:2

Jer 52:2He did evil in the sight of the LORD like all that Jehoiakim had done.

Jer 52:3

Jer 52:3For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jer 52:4

Jer 52:4Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.

Jer 52:5

Jer 52:5So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Jer 52:6

Jer 52:6On 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.

Jer 52:7

Jer 52:7Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were [fn]all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

Jer 52:8

Jer 52:8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the [fn]plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

Jer 52:9

Jer 52:9Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he [fn]passed sentence on him.

Jer 52:10

Jer 52:10The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the [fn]princes of Judah in Riblah.

Jer 52:11

Jer 52:11Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

Jer 52:12

Jer 52:12Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, [fn]who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Jer 52:13

Jer 52:13He burned the house of the LORD, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

Jer 52:14

Jer 52:14So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Jer 52:15

Jer 52:15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the [fn]deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

Jer 52:16

Jer 52:16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and [fn]plowmen.

Jer 52:17

Jer 52:17Now the bronze pillars which belonged to 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 all their bronze to Babylon.

Jer 52:18

Jer 52:18They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the [fn]pans and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service.

Jer 52:19

Jer 52:19The captain of the guard also took away the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the [fn]pans and the drink offering bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.

Jer 52:20

Jer 52:20The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under [fn]the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD—the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

Jer 52:21

Jer 52:21As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen [fn]cubits, and [fn]it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

Jer 52:22

Jer 52:22Now a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.

Jer 52:23

Jer 52:23There were ninety-six [fn]exposed pomegranates; all the pomegranates numbered a hundred on the network all around.

Jer 52:24

Jer 52:24Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three [fn]officers of the temple.

Jer 52:25

Jer 52:25He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven [fn]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 of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

Jer 52:26

Jer 52:26Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Jer 52:27

Jer 52:27Then 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 land.

Jer 52:28

Jer 52:28These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the [fn]seventh year 3,023 Jews;

Jer 52:29

Jer 52:29in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem;

Jer 52:30

Jer 52:30in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

Jer 52:31

Jer 52:31Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that [fn]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, [fn]showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

Jer 52:32

Jer 52:32Then he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jer 52:33

Jer 52:33So [fn]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and [fn]had his meals in [fn]the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life.

Jer 52:34

Jer 52:34For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Another reading is Hamital
Literally: against it
Literally: against the city on every side
Literally: Arabah
Literally: spoke judgments with
Or, commanders
Literally: stood before the king
Literally: fallers who had fallen
Or, unpaid laborers
Or, spoons for incense
Or, spoons for incense
So Gr and Syriac; Heb omits the sea
I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
Literally: a line of 12 cubits would encircle it
Literally: windward
Literally: keepers of the door
Literally: men of those seeing the king's face
Or, possibly seventeenth
Or, Awil-Marduk (``Man of Marduk")
Literally: lifted up the head of
Literally: he
Literally: ate
Literally: his presence
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