58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her
high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire,
and they shall be weary.
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his
reign. And thisSeraiah wasa quiet prince.
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, evenall these
words that are written against Babylon.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all
these words;
62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none
shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, thatthou shalt bind a
stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring
upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far arethe words of Jeremiah.
1 Zedekiah wasone and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 And he did that which wasevil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had
done.
3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast
them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth dayof the
month, thatNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and
pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth dayof the month, the famine was sore in the city, so
that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by
night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which wasby the king's garden; (now the
Chaldeans wereby the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of
Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the
princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and
carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth dayof the month, which wasthe nineteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, whichserved the king
of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and
all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that werewith the captain of the guard, brake down all
the walls of Jerusalem round about.
15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certainof the poor of the
people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that
fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certainof the poor of the land for
vinedressers and for husbandmen.
17 Also the pillars of brass that werein the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen
sea that wasin the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to
Babylon.
18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all
the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and
the spoons, and the cups; thatwhich wasof gold ingold, and thatwhich wasof silver insilver,
took the captain of the guard away.
20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that wereunder the bases, which king
Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21 And concerningthe pillars, the height of one pillar waseighteen cubits; and a fillet of
twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof wasfour fingers: it washollow.
22 And a chapiter of brass wasupon it; and the height of one chapiter wasfive cubits, with
network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all ofbrass. The second pillar also
and the pomegranates werelike unto these.
23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; andall the pomegranates upon the
network werean hundred round about.
24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,
and the three keepers of the door:
25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven
men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal
scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the
land, that were found in the midst of the city.
26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon
to Riblah.
27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath.
Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
28 This isthe people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three
thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight
hundred thirty and two persons:
30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were
four thousand and six hundred.
31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of
Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth dayof the month, thatEvilmerodach king
of Babylon in the firstyear of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and
brought him forth out of prison,
32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that werewith
him in Babylon,
33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of
his life.
34 And forhis diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a
portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.