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Jeremiah 52
Legacy Standard Bible

The Anger of Yahweh Towards Judah

52 (A)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was [a](B)Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of (C)Libnah. 2 And he did (D)what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that (E)Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through the (F)anger of Yahweh this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah (G)rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 (H)Now it happened in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and they camped against it and built a (I)siege wall all around [b]it. 5 (J)So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 On the ninth day of the (K)fourth month, the (L)famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was (M)breached, and all the (N)men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were [c](O)all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. 8 But the military force of the Chaldeans pursued the king and (P)overtook Zedekiah in the [d]plains of Jericho, and all his military force was scattered from him. 9 Then they seized the king and (Q)brought him up to the king of Babylon at (R)Riblah in the land of (S)Hamath, and he [e]spoke his judgment on him. 10 Then the king of Babylon (T)slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the [f]princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he (U)blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

12 (V)Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the (W)nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, (X)Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13 And he (Y)burned the house of Yahweh, the (Z)king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire. 14 So all the military force of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard (AA)tore down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard (AB)took away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the [g](AC)defectors who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisans. 16 But (AD)Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had some of the poorest of the land remain to be vinedressers and [h]plowmen.

17 Now the bronze (AE)pillars which belonged to the house of Yahweh and the (AF)stands and the bronze (AG)sea, which were in the house of Yahweh, the Chaldeans shattered and carried all their bronze to Babylon. 18 They also took away the (AH)pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the bowls, the [i]pans, and all the bronze vessels which were used to minister. 19 And the captain of the guard also took away the (AI)cups, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the [j]pans, and the offering bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver. 20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under [k]the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh—the bronze of all these vessels was (AJ)beyond weight. 21 As for the pillars, the (AK)height of each pillar was [l]eighteen cubits, and [m]it was twelve cubits in (AL)circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow. 22 Now a (AM)capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and (AN)pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates. 23 There were ninety-six [n]exposed pomegranates; all (AO)the pomegranates numbered one hundred on the network all around.

24 Then the captain of the guard took (AP)Seraiah the chief priest and (AQ)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three [o](AR)doorkeepers of the temple. 25 And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven [p]of the (AS)king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and (AT)led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 Then the king of Babylon (AU)struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah (AV)went into exile from its land.

28 These are the people whom (AW)Nebuchadnezzar took away into exile: in the [q]seventh year 3,023 Jews; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, (AX)Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took away into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

31 (AY)Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that [r]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, (AZ)lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison; 32 (BA)and he spoke to him good words, and he set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 33 So [s]Jehoiachin (BB)changed his prison clothes and [t](BC)had his meals in [u]the king’s presence continually all the days of his life. 34 For his allowance, a (BD)continual allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:1 Or Hamital
  2. Jeremiah 52:4 Lit against it
  3. Jeremiah 52:7 Lit against the city on every side
  4. Jeremiah 52:8 Same root as Arabah in 52:7
  5. Jeremiah 52:9 Lit spoke judgments with
  6. Jeremiah 52:10 Or commanders
  7. Jeremiah 52:15 Lit fallers who had fallen
  8. Jeremiah 52:16 Or unpaid laborers
  9. Jeremiah 52:18 Or spoons for incense
  10. Jeremiah 52:19 Or spoons for incense
  11. Jeremiah 52:20 As in Gr and Syr; Heb omits the sea
  12. Jeremiah 52:21 Approx. 27 ft. high and 18 ft. in circumference or 8 m and 5.4 m
  13. Jeremiah 52:21 Lit a line of 12 cubits would encircle it
  14. Jeremiah 52:23 Lit windward
  15. Jeremiah 52:24 Lit keepers of the door
  16. Jeremiah 52:25 Lit men of those seeing the king’s face
  17. Jeremiah 52:28 Or possibly seventeenth
  18. Jeremiah 52:31 Or Awil-Marduk (“Man of Marduk”)
  19. Jeremiah 52:33 Lit he
  20. Jeremiah 52:33 Lit ate
  21. Jeremiah 52:33 Lit his presence
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Jeremiah 52
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

IX. Historical Appendix[a]

Chapter 52

Capture of Jerusalem. 1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.(A) His mother’s name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. 2 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done. 3 Indeed, the things done in Jerusalem and in Judah so angered the Lord that he cast them out from his presence. Thus Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 (B)In the tenth month of the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the month,[b] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his entire army advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it, and built siege walls on every side. 5 The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

6 On the ninth day of the fourth month, when famine had gripped the city and the people had no more bread, 7 the city walls were breached. All the soldiers fled and left the city by night through the gate between the two walls which was near the king’s garden. With the Chaldeans surrounding the city, they went in the direction of the Arabah. 8 But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the wilderness near Jericho; his whole army fled from him.

9 The king, therefore, was arrested and brought to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, to the king of Babylon, who pronounced judgment on him. 10 As Zedekiah looked on, the king of Babylon slaughtered his sons before his eyes! All the nobles of Judah were slaughtered at Riblah. 11 And the eyes of Zedekiah he then blinded, bound him with chains, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and kept him in prison until the day he died.

Destruction of Jerusalem. 12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, this was in the nineteenth year[c] of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, came to Jerusalem as the representative of the king of Babylon. 13 He burned the house of the Lord, the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every large building he destroyed with fire. 14 Then the Chaldean troops with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

15 Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, led into exile the remnant of people left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisans. 16 But Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, left behind some of the country’s poor as vinedressers and farmers.

17 The bronze pillars that belonged to the house of the Lord, and the wheeled carts and the bronze sea in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke into pieces; they carried away all the bronze to Babylon. 18 They also took the pots, shovels, snuffers, bowls, pans, and all the bronze vessels used for service; 19 the basins, fire holders, bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, the sacrificial bowls made of gold or silver. Along with these furnishings the captain of the guard carried off 20 the two pillars, the one sea and its base of twelve oxen cast in bronze, and the wheeled carts King Solomon had commissioned for the house of the Lord. The bronze from all these furnishings was impossible to weigh.

21 As for the pillars, each of them was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in diameter; each was four fingers thick and hollow inside. 22 A bronze capital five cubits high crowned the one pillar, and a network with pomegranates encircled the capital, all of bronze; and so for the other pillar, with pomegranates. 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, a hundred pomegranates surrounding the network.

24 The captain of the guard also took Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the entrance. 25 From the city he took one courtier, a commander of soldiers, and seven men in the personal service of the king still in the city, the scribe of the army commander who mustered the people of the land, and sixty of the common people remaining in the city. 26 The captain of the guard, Nebuzaradan, arrested them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah, 27 who had them struck down and executed in Riblah, in the land of Hamath.

Thus Judah was exiled from the land. 28 [d]This is the number of people Nebuchadnezzar led away captive: in his seventh year, three thousand twenty-three people of Judah; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty-two persons from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, deported seven hundred forty-five Judahites: four thousand six hundred persons in all.

Favor Shown to Jehoiachin.[e] 31 (C)In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the inaugural year of his reign, raised up Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and released him from prison. 32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne higher than the thrones of the other kings[f] who were with him in Babylon. 33 Jehoiachin took off his prison garb and ate at the king’s table as long as he lived. 34 The allowance given him by the king of Babylon was a perpetual allowance, in fixed daily amounts, all the days of his life until the day of his death.

Footnotes

  1. 52:1–34 One of the editors of the Book of Jeremiah took most of this supplement from 2 Kgs 24:18–25:30 and placed it here to show the fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophecies. The supplement repeats part of the history given in Jeremiah 39–41, but omits the history of Gedaliah in 2 Kgs 25:22–26.
  2. 52:4 In the tenth month of the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the month: January 15, 588 B.C. Cf. 39:1.
  3. 52:12 On the tenth day of the fifth month…nineteenth year: the tenth of Ab—July/August in 587/586 B.C.
  4. 52:28–30 These verses, missing in the Greek text, do not come from 2 Kgs 25 but from a source using a different chronology. Besides the deportations of 598 and 587 B.C., this passage mentions a final deportation in 582/581, possibly a response to the murder of Gedaliah; cf. Jer 41:2.
  5. 52:31–34 In the year 561/560 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar’s successor Awel-Marduk (Evil-merodach), who reigned only two years, released Jehoiachin. Babylonian records confirm that Jehoiachin and his family were supported at public expense.
  6. 52:32 The other kings: heads of state brought as captives to Babylon.
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