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chapter 25
1
And it
came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day
of the month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, he and all his army
against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: end raised works round about it.
2 And the city was shut up and besieged till the
eleventh year of king Sedecias,
3 The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in
the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 And a breach was made into the city: and all the men
of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden, (now the
Chaldees besieged the city round about,) and Sedecias fled by the way that
leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.
5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king,
and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with
him were scattered, and left him:
6 So they took the king, and brought him to the king of
Babylon to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.
7 And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and
he put out his eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.
8 In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month,
that is, the nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan commander
of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.
9 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's
house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every house he burnt with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the
commander of the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11 And Nabuzardan the commander of the army, carried
away the rest of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that
had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.
12 But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of
vines and husbandmen.
13 And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of
the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass which was in the house of the Lord,
the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
14 They took away also the pots of brass, and the
mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of
brass with which they ministered.
15 Moreover also the censers, and the bowls, such as
were of gold in gold, and such as were of silver in silver, the general of the
army took away.
16 That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which
Solomon had made in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
17 One pillar was eighteen cubits high, and the
chapiter of brass which was upon it was three cubits high: and the network, and
the pomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of brass:
and the second pillar had the like adorning.
18 And the general of the army took Seraias the chief
priest, and Sophonias the second priest, and three doorkeepers.
19 And out of the city one eunuch, who was captain over
the men of war: and five men of them that had stood before the king, whom he
found in the city, and Sopher the captain of the army who exercised the young
soldiers of the people of the land: and threescore men of the common people,
who were found in the city.
20 These Nabuzardan the general of the army took away,
and carried them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.
21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at
Reblatha in the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.
22 But over the people that remained in the land of
Juda, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had left, he gave the government to
Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan.
23 And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard
this, they and the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon
had made Godolias governor, they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael the son of
Nathanias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and Saraia the son of Thanehumeth the
Netophathite, and Jezonias the son of Maachathi, they and their men.
24 And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying
: Be not afraid to serve the Chaldees: stay in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ismael the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama of the seed royal came, and ten
men with him: and smote Godolias so that he died: and also the Jews and the
Chaldees that were with him in Maspha.
26 And all the people both little and great, and the
captains of the soldiers, rising up went to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees.
27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year
of the captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month the seven and
twentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he
began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda out of prison.
28 And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne
above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
29 And he changed his garments which he had in prison,
and he ate bread always before him, all the days of his life.
30 And he appointed him a continual allowance, which
was also given him by the king day by day, all the days of his life.
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