2 Kings Chapter 25
2 Kings is the 12th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains 2 Kings 25:1 to 2 Kings 25:9.
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2 Kings 25:1
Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.
2 Kings 25:2
So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
2 Kings 25:3
On 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.
2 Kings 25:4
Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.
2 Kings 25:5
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him.
2 Kings 25:6
Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him.
2 Kings 25:7
They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:8
Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:9
He burned the house of the LORD, the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
2 Kings 25:10
So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:11
Then the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile.
2 Kings 25:12
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
2 Kings 25:13
Now the bronze pillars which were in 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 the bronze to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:14
They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service.
2 Kings 25:15
The captain of the guard also took away the firepans and the basins, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.
2 Kings 25:16
The two pillars, the one sea, and the stands which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.
2 Kings 25:17
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.
2 Kings 25:18
Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple.
2 Kings 25:19
From the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five of the king's advisers who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
2 Kings 25:20
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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