⁵ For ^(A)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.^[a]

^16 (A)And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger^[a] of the Philistines and of ^(B)the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. ¹⁷ And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except ^(C)Jehoahaz, his youngest son.

¹⁸ Jehoash king of Judah ^(A)took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, ^(B)and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king's house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.

³⁸ He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor ^(A)with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.

^2 (A)Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that ^(B)the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father^[a] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. ³ Then they brought in ^(C)the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

^(B)The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of ^(C)the Medes, because ^(D)his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, ^(E)for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for ^(F)his temple.

²⁸ “A voice! They ^(A)flee and escape from the land of Babylon, ^(B)to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for ^(C)his temple.

^13 (A)And the pillars ^(B)of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and ^(C)the stands and ^(D)the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. ^14 (E)And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service, ¹⁵ the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. ¹⁶ As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, ^(F)the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. ^17 (G)The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,^[a] and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.

¹³ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord ^(A)and the treasures of the king's house, ^(B)and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, ^(C)which Solomon king of Israel had made, ^(D)as the Lord had foretold.