¹² Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,^[a] who stood before^[b] the king of Babylon, entered into Jerusalem. ¹³ And he burned the temple^[c] of Yahweh, and the palace^[d] of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire. ¹⁴ And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard^[e] broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. ¹⁵ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard^[f] deported some of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon, along with the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard^[g] left some of the poor of the land to serve as vinedressers and farmers.

¹⁷ And the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the temple^[h] of Yahweh, and the kettle stands and the sea of bronze that were in the temple^[i] of Yahweh, and they carried all their bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸ And they took with them the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pans, and all the vessels of bronze which were used in temple service. ¹⁹ And the captain of the guard^[j] took the bowls, and the firepans, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the pans, and the libation bowls, those made of solid gold^[k] and those made of solid silver.^{[l] 20} The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the temple^[m] of Yahweh—there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels! ²¹ Now the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits,^[n] and a thread of twelve cubits^[o] surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollowed out. ²² And a capital upon it was bronze and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital on all sides, all of bronze. And like these was the second pillar with pomegranates. ²³ And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides;^[p] all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides were a hundred.