Jeremiah 52 :: New International Version (NIV)

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, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

Jer 52:2

Jer 52:2He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

Jer 52:3

Jer 52:3It was because of the LORD’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence. Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jer 52:4

Jer 52:4So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.

Jer 52:5

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

Jer 52:6

Jer 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

Jer 52:7

Jer 52:7Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians[fn] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[fn]

Jer 52:8

Jer 52:8but the Babylonian[fn] army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,

Jer 52:9

Jer 52:9and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him.

Jer 52:10

Jer 52:10There at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the officials of Judah.

Jer 52:11

Jer 52:11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.

Jer 52:12

Jer 52:12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Jer 52:13

Jer 52:13He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

Jer 52:14

Jer 52:14The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Jer 52:15

Jer 52:15Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen[fn] and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.

Jer 52:16

Jer 52:16But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

Jer 52:17

Jer 52:17The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

Jer 52:18

Jer 52:18They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.

Jer 52:19

Jer 52:19The commander of the imperial guard took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls used for drink offerings—all that were made of pure gold or silver.

Jer 52:20

Jer 52:20The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed.

Jer 52:21

Jer 52:21Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference[fn]; each was four fingers thick, and hollow.

Jer 52:22

Jer 52:22The bronze capital on top of one pillar was five cubits[fn] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.

Jer 52:23

Jer 52:23There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the surrounding network was a hundred.

Jer 52:24

Jer 52:24The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.

Jer 52:25

Jer 52:25Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.

Jer 52:26

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

Jer 52:27

Jer 52:27There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.

Jer 52:28

Jer 52:28This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

Jer 52:29

Jer 52:29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;

Jer 52:30

Jer 52:30in his twenty-third year, 745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard. There were 4,600 people in all.

Jehoiachin Released

(2Ki 25:27–30 )

Jer 52:31

Jer 52:31In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.

Jer 52:32

Jer 52:32He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jer 52:33

Jer 52:33So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.

Jer 52:34

Jer 52:34Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.

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NIV Footnotes

(52:7)

Or Chaldeans; also in verse 17

(52:7)

Or the Jordan Valley

(52:8)

Or Chaldean; also in verse 14

(52:15)

Or the populace

(52:21)

That is, about 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference or about 8.1 meters high and 5.4 meters in circumference

(52:22)

That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters

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Jeremiah 52 :: New International Version (NIV)

The Fall of Jerusalem

Jehoiachin Released

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