1 Zedequias tinha vinte e um anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou onze anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Hamutal, filha de Jeremias de Libna.
2 Ele fez o que era mau aos olhos de Jeová, conforme tudo o que Jeoaquim fizera.
3 Isto aconteceu por causa da ira de Jeová em Jerusalém até os ter lançado da sua presença. Zedequias rebelou-se contra o rei de Babilônia.
4 Sucedeu que, no ano nono do seu reinado, no décimo mês, aos dez dias do mês, veio Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, com todo o seu exército contra Jerusalém, e acampou-se contra ela; e contra ela levantaram trincheiras ao redor.
5 A cidade ficou sitiada até o undécimo ano de Zedequias.
6 No quarto mês aos nove dias do mês, viu-se a cidade apertada de fome, de modo que não havia pão para o povo da terra.
7 Então se abriu uma brecha na cidade, e todos os homens de guerra fugiram, e saíram da cidade de noite, pelo caminho da porta entre os dois muros, a qual está junto ao jardim do rei (ora os caldeus cercavam a cidade ao redor); e foram-se pelo caminho da Arabá.
8 Mas o exército dos caldeus perseguiu o rei, e alcançou a Zedequias nas campinas de Jericó; todo o seu exército dispersou-se e o abandonou.
9 Prenderam o rei, e o levaram ao rei de Babilônia a Ribla na terra de Hamate; e ele lhe pronunciou a sentença.
10 O rei de Babilônia matou os filhos de Zedequias diante dos seus olhos; e bem assim matou todos os príncipes de Judá em Ribla.
11 Vazou os olhos de Zedequias, atou-o com cadeias, levou-o para Babilônia e o pôs no cárcere até o dia da sua morte.
12 Ora no quinto mês, aos dez dias do mês, era o décimo nono ano de Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, veio a Jerusalém Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda, que assistia na presença dg rei de Bacilônia;
13 queimou a casa de Jeová, e a casa do rei; e todas as casas de Jerusalém, a saber, todas as casas importantes, ele as entregou às chamas.
14 Todo o exército dos caldeus que estava com o capitão da guarda deitou abaixo em roda todos os muros de Jerusalém.
15 Dos mais pobres da terra, e o resto do povo que havia ficado na cidade, e os desertores que se tinham passado ao rei de Babilônia, e o resto da multidão, levou-os cativos Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda.
16 Mas dos mais pobres da terra deixou Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda, para serem vinheiros e lavradores.
17 Os caldeus despedaçaram as colunas de cobre que estavam na casa de Jeová, e as bases, e o mar de cobre que estava na casa de Jeová, e levaram todo o cobre para Babilônia.
18 Levaram também as panelas, e as pás e os apagadores, e as bacias, e as colheres, e todos os vasos de cobre, de que usavam no ministério.
19 Levou o capitão da guarda os copos, e os braseiros, e as bacias, e as panelas, e os candeeiros, e as colheres e as taças, o que era de ouro, em ouro, e o que era de prata, em prata,
20 as duas colunas, o único mar, e os doze bois de cobre que estavam debaixo das bases, que o rei Salomão tinha feito para a casa de Jeová. O cobre de todos estes vasos não tinha peso.
21 Quanto às colunas, a altura de cada coluna era de dezoito cúbitos; um cordão de doze cúbitos a cercava; e a sua grossura era de quatro dedos: era oca.
22 Sobre ela havia um capitel de cobre; e cada capitel tinha cinco cúbitos de alto, e uma rede e romãs sobre o capitel ao redor, tudo de cobre; e a segunda coluna tinha as mesmas coisas, e romãs.
23 Havia noventa e seis romãs aos lados; as romãs todas eram cem, postas sobre a rede ao redor.
24 Levou o capitão da guarda a Seraías, o sumo sacerdote, e a Sofonias o segundo sacerdote e os três guardas da porta;
25 e da cidade levou a um oficial que tinha a seu cargo os homens de guerra; e a sete homens dos que assistiam ao rei e que se achavam na cidade; e ao escriba do capitão do exército que registrava o povo da terra; e sessenta homens do povo da terra, que se achavam no meio da cidade.
26 Tomando-os Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda, levou-os ao rei de Babilônia, a Ribla.
27 O rei de Babilônia os feriu, assim matando-os, em Ribla na terra de Hamate. Assim Judá foi levado cativo fora da sua terra.
28 Esta é a gente que Nabucodonozor levou cativo: no sétimo ano três mil e vinte e três judeus;
29 no décimo oitavo ano de Nabucodonozor, levou de Jerusalém oitocentas e trinta e duas pessoas;
30 no vigésimo terceiro ano de Nabucodonozor, Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda, levou cativas dentre os judeus setecentas e quarenta e cinco pessoas: todas as pessoas foram quatro mil e seiscentas.
31 No trigésimo sétimo ano do cativeiro de Jeoaquim, rei de Judá, no duodécimo mês aos vinte e cinco dias do mês, Evil-Merodaque, rei de Babilônia, no primeiro ano do seu reinado, levantou a cabeça de Jeoaquim, rei de Judá, e o tirou do cárcere.
32 Falou-lhe benignamente, pôs o trono dele acima dos tronos dos reis que estavam com ele em Babilônia.
33 Fez-lhe mudar os vestidos de que usava no cárcere; e Jeoaquim comia pão na presença do rei continuamente todos os dias de sua vida.
34 Para a sua ração, foi-lhe dada pelo rei de Babilônia uma ração contínua, em cada dia a sua porção até o dia da sua morte, durante todos os dias da sua vida.
1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
3 And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.
4 And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.
5 So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.
7 Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.
8 And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
9 Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.
10 And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.
11 And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12 Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
13 And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:
14 And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
15 Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who were still in the town, and those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the workmen.
16 But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.
17 And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.
18 And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.
19 And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the spoons and the wide basins; the gold of the gold vessels, and the silver of the silver vessels, the captain of the armed men took away.
20 The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21 And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.
22 And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.
23 There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundred.
24 And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;
25 And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.
26 These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27 And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land.
28 These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:
29 And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons:
30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
31 And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison.
32 And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
33 And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
34 And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.