1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 ¶ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. 6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8 ¶ And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away. 12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. 13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
18 ¶ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: 20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
22 ¶ And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. 23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell 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 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. 26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
27 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; 29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. 30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
1 factum est autem anno nono regni eius
mense decimo decima die mensis
venit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis
ipse et omnis exercitus eius in Hierusalem
et circumdederunt eam et extruxerunt in circuitu eius munitiones
2 et clausa est civitas atque vallata
usque ad undecimum annum regis Sedeciae
3 nona die mensis
praevaluitque fames in civitate nec erat panis populo terrae
4 et interrupta est civitas et omnes viri bellatores nocte fugerunt
per viam portae quae est inter duplicem murum ad hortum regis
porro Chaldei obsidebant in circuitu civitatem
fugit itaque per viam quae ducit ad
campestria solitudinis
5 et persecutus est exercitus Chaldeorum regem
conprehenditque eum in planitie Hiericho
et omnes bellatores qui erant cum eo dispersi sunt et reliquerunt eum
6 adprehensum ergo regem duxerunt ad regem Babylonis in Reblatha
qui locutus est cum eo iudicium
7 filios autem Sedeciae occidit coram eo et oculos eius effodit
vinxitque eum catenis et adduxit in Babylonem
8 mense quinto septima die mensis
ipse est annus nonusdecimus regis Babylonis
venit Nabuzardan princeps exercitus
servus regis Babylonis Hierusalem
9 et succendit domum Domini et domum regis et domos Hierusalem
omnemque domum conbusit igni
10 et muros Hierusalem in circuitu destruxit omnis exercitus Chaldeorum
qui erat cum principe militum
11 reliquam autem populi partem
qui remanserat in civitate
et perfugas qui transfugerant ad regem Babylonis
et reliquum vulgus transtulit Nabuzardan princeps militiae
12 et de pauperibus terrae reliquit vinitores et agricolas
13 columnas autem aereas quae erant in templo Domini et bases
et mare aereum quod erat in domo Domini
confregerunt Chaldei
et transtulerunt aes omnium in Babylonem
14 ollas quoque aereas et trullas
et tridentes et scyphos
et omnia vasa aerea in quibus ministrabant tulerunt
15 nec non turibula et fialas
quae aurea aurea et quae argentea argentea
tulit princeps militiae
16 id est columnas duas mare unum
et bases quas fecerat Salomon in templo Domini
non erat pondus aeris omnium vasorum
17 decem et octo cubitos altitudinis habebat columna una
et capitellum aereum super se altitudinis trium cubitorum
et reticulum et malogranata super capitellum
columnae omnia aerea
similem et columna secunda habebat ornatum
18 tulit quoque princeps militiae Seraian sacerdotem primum
et Sophoniam sacerdotem secundum et tres ianitores
19 et de civitate eunuchum unum
qui erat praefectus super viros bellatores
et quinque viros de his qui steterant coram rege
quos repperit in civitate
et Sopher principem exercitus qui probabat tirones de populo terrae
et sex viros e vulgo qui inventi fuerant in civitate
20 quos tollens Nabuzardan princeps militum
duxit ad regem Babylonis in Reblatha
21 percussitque eos rex Babylonis
et interfecit in Reblatha in terra Emath
et translatus est Iuda de terra sua
22 populo autem qui relictus erat in terra Iuda
quem dimiserat Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis
praefecit Godoliam filium Ahicham filii Saphan
23 quod cum audissent omnes duces militum
ipsi et viri qui erant cum eis
videlicet quod constituisset rex Babylonis Godoliam
venerunt ad Godoliam in Maspha
Ismahel filius Nathaniae et Iohanan filius Caree
et Sareia filius Thenaameth Nethophathites
et Iezonias filius Maachathi
ipsi et socii eorum
24 iuravitque eis Godolias et sociis eorum dicens
nolite timere servire Chaldeis
manete in terra et servite regi Babylonis et bene erit vobis
25 factum est autem in mense septimo
venit Ismahel filius Nathaniae filii Elisama de semine regio
et decem viri cum eo
percusseruntque Godoliam qui mortuus est
sed et Iudaeos et Chaldeos qui erant cum eo in Maspha
26 consurgens autem omnis populus a parvo usque ad magnum
et principes militum
venerunt in Aegyptum timentes Chaldeos
27 factum est vero anno tricesimo septimo
transmigrationis Ioiachin regis Iudae
mense duodecimo vicesima septima die mensis
sublevavit Evilmerodach rex Babylonis anno quo regnare coeperat
caput Ioiachin regis Iuda de carcere
28 et locutus est ei benigna
et posuit thronum eius super thronum regum
qui erant cum eo in Babylone
29 et mutavit vestes eius quas habuerat in carcere
et comedebat panem semper in conspectu eius
cunctis diebus vitae suae
30 annonam quoque constituit ei absque intermissione
quae et dabatur ei a rege per singulos dies
omnibus diebus vitae suae
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