Jeremiah 52:12-23

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹² On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ¹³ He burned the temple of the Lord, the king’s palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned down every important building. ¹⁴ The whole Chaldean army under his command broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried off some of the poorest of the people, some of the survivors left in the city, some of the people who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and farms.

¹⁷ The Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars that were in the Lord’s temple, along with the carts for water and the bronze Sea, and carried away all the bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸ They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers,^[a] the bowls, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. ¹⁹ The commander of the guard took away the bowls, fire pans, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes, and the drink offering bowls—the best of the gold and the best of the silver.

²⁰ The two pillars, the Sea, and the twelve bronze bulls under the basins, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, were made of more bronze than could be weighed.

²¹ As for the pillars, each pillar was twenty-seven feet high and eighteen feet in circumference. Each was four fingers thick and hollow. ²² Each had a bronze capital, seven and a half feet high, with a network and pomegranate decorations on the capital all around, all of bronze. The other pillar with its pomegranates was just like it. ²³ There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides. There was a total of one hundred pomegranates above the surrounding network.