² On the fifth day of the month (it was ^(A)the fifth year of ^(B)the exile of King Jehoiachin),

Vision of the New Temple

40 ^(A)In the twenty-fifth year ^(B)of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, ^(C)in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, ^(D)the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city.^[a]

Israel's Continuing Rebellion

20 ^(A)In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of ^(B)the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, ^(C)and sat before me.

Abominations in the Temple

8 ^(A)In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, ^(B)as I sat in my house, with ^(C)the elders of Judah sitting before me, ^(D)the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.

^12 (A)and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. ^(B)The king of Babylon took him prisoner ^(C)in the eighth year of his reign ¹³ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord ^(D)and the treasures of the king's house, ^(E)and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, ^(F)which Solomon king of Israel had made, ^(G)as the Lord had foretold. ^14 (H)He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, ^(I)10,000 captives, ^(J)and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, ^(K)except the poorest people of the land. ^15 (L)And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.