1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.

Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah, 8 but the army of the Chaldeans pursued 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 to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him. 10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem. 13 He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. 14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

17 The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon. 18 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered. 19 The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, as gold, and that which was of silver, as silver.

20 They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight. 21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow. 22 A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. The second pillar also had the same, with pomegranates. 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.

24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold, 25 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city. 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 27 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.

So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:

in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;

29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;

30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people.

All the people numbered four thousand six hundred.

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison. 32 He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 33 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. 34 For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

1 西底家登基的时候是二十一岁， 他在耶路撒冷作王十一年； 他母亲名叫哈慕他， 是立拿人耶利米的女儿。

2 他行耶和华眼中看为恶的事， 像约雅敬一切所行的。

3 因为耶和华的怒气向耶路撒冷和犹大发作， 直到他把他们从自己的面前赶走。后来， 西底家背叛了巴比伦王。

4 西底家作王第九年十月十日， 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领他的全军来攻打耶路撒冷； 他们在城外安营， 又在四周筑垒攻城。

5 于是， 城被围困， 直到西底家王第十一年。

6 四月九日， 城里饥荒非常严重， 甚至那地的人民都断了粮食。

7 城终于被攻破了， 所有的战士就在夜间从靠近王的花园的两墙中间的那门， 逃跑出城。那时迦勒底人在四围攻城； 他们就往亚拉巴的方向逃走。

8 迦勒底人的军队追赶， 在耶利哥的原野上把西底家追上了； 他的全军都离开他四散了。

9 他们把王擒住， 把他解到哈马地的利比拉巴比伦王那里； 他就宣判他的罪。

10 巴比伦王在利比拉， 当着西底家眼前杀了他的众子， 也杀了犹大所有的领袖，

11 并且把西底家的眼睛弄瞎， 然后用铜链锁住他。巴比伦王把他带到巴比伦去， 关在牢里， 直到他去世的日子。

12 五月十日， 就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒第十九年， 侍立在巴比伦王面前的护卫长尼布撒拉旦来到耶路撒冷。

13 他放火焚烧耶和华的殿和王宫， 以及耶路撒冷一切房屋， 一切高大的房屋， 他都放火烧了。

14 跟随护卫长的迦勒底人全军拆毁了耶路撒冷周围所有的城墙。

15 至于人民中最贫穷的、城中剩下的人民， 和已经向巴比伦王投降的人， 以及剩下的技工， 护卫长尼布撒拉旦都掳了去。

16 至于那地最贫穷的人， 护卫长尼布撒拉旦把他们留下， 去修理葡萄园和耕种田地。

17 耶和华殿的铜柱， 以及耶和华殿的铜座和铜海， 迦勒底人都打碎了， 把所有的铜都运到巴比伦去。

18 他们又把锅、铲子、烛剪、碗、碟子， 和敬拜用的一切铜器都拿去了。

19 此外， 碗盆、火鼎、碗、锅、灯台、碟子和奠酒的爵， 无论是金的或是银的， 护卫长都拿去了。

20 所罗门王为耶和华的殿所做的两根铜柱、一个铜海、铜海下面的十二头铜牛， 和十个铜座， 这一切器皿的铜， 重得无法可称。

21 至于那些柱子， 每根高八公尺， 圆周是五公尺三公分， 柱子是空心的。铜的厚度有七十五公厘。

22 柱上有铜柱头， 柱头高两公尺三十公分， 柱头四周有网子和石榴都是铜的； 另一根柱子同样也有石榴。

23 每个网子周围共有一百个石榴， 明显可见的有九十六个。

24 护卫长拿住祭司长西莱雅、副祭司长西番亚和三个守门的；

25 又从城里拿住一个管理军兵的官长， 并且在城里搜获常见王面的七个人， 和一个负责召募当地人民的军长书记， 又在城中搜获六十个当地的人民。

26 护卫长尼布撒拉旦把他们拿住， 带到利比拉巴比伦王那里。

27 巴比伦王击打他们， 在哈马地的利比拉把他们处死。这样， 犹大人被掳， 离开了他们的国土。

28 以下是尼布甲尼撒掳去的人民的数目： 在他执政第七年， 有犹大人三千零二十三名；

29 尼布甲尼撒第十八年， 从耶路撒冷掳去的， 有八百三十二人；

30 尼布甲尼撒第二十三年， 护卫长尼布撒拉旦掳去犹大人七百四十五名。总数是四千六百人。

31 犹大王约雅斤被掳后第三十七年， 就是巴比伦王以未．米罗达登基的那一年， 十二月二十五日， 他恩待（"恩待"原文作"使抬起头来"）犹大王约雅斤， 把他从狱中领出来，

32 并且安慰他， 使他的地位高过和他一起在巴比伦的众王。

33 又换下他的囚衣， 赐他终生常在王面前吃饭。

34 他的生活费用， 在他一生的年日中， 每日不断由巴比伦王供应， 直到他去世的日子。