Jeremias 52

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;*52:21 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. 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,*52:22 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. 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.

Te Hinganga o Hiruhārama i Tirohia Anō

1 E rua tekau mā tahi ngā tau o Terekia i a ia i kīngi ai; ā, kotahi tekau mā tahi ngā tau i kīngi ai ia ki Hiruhārama. Ā, ko te ingoa o tōna whaea ko Hamutara, he tamāhine nā Heremaia o Rīpina. 2 Ā, i kino tāna mahi ki te titiro a Ihowā, i rite ki ngā mea katoa i mea ai a Iehoiakimi. 3 Nā reira i a Ihowā ka riri nei, ka puta mai te aituā ki Hiruhārama, ki a Hūrā, ā makā noatia atu rātou i tōna aroaro.

Ā, i whakakeke a Terekia ki te kīngi o Papurōna. 4 Nā, i te iwa o ngā tau o tōna kīngitanga, i te tekau o ngā marama, i te tekau o ngā rā o te marama, ka tae mai a Nepukareha kīngi o Papurōna, a ia me tāna ope katoa ki Hiruhārama, ā, whakapaea ana e ia; ā, hangā ana e rātou ētahi taumaihi ā taka noa, hei whawhai atu ki reira. 5 Heoi, ka whakapaea te pā, ā tae noa ki te tekau mā tahi o ngā tau o Kīngi Terekia.

6 I te whā o ngā marama, i te iwa o ngā rā o te marama, ka tino nui te matekai o te pā, nā, kāhore he taro mā ngā tāngata o te whenua. 7 Kātahi ka pakaru te pā, rere ana ngā tāngata whawhai katoa, puta ana i roto i te pā i te pō, nā te ara o te kūwaha i waenganui o ngā taiepa e rua, nā tērā i te kāri a te kīngi, i karapotia hoki te pā e ngā Karari; ā, haere ana rātou nā te ara o te Arapa. 8 Otiia, i whāia te kīngi e te ope o ngā Karari, ā, hopukia ana a Terekia ki ngā mānia i Heriko; ā, i marara noa atu tāna ope katoa i tōna taha.

9 Nā, ka mau rātou ki te kīngi, ā, kawea ana ki te kīngi o Papurōna, ki Ripira i te whenua o Hāmata; ā, whakaputaia ana e ia te whakawā mōna. 10 Nā, tukitukia ana e te kīngi o Papurōna ngā tama a Terekia i tāna tirohanga; i tukitukia anō e ia ngā rangatira katoa o Hūrā ki Ripira. 11 Nā, tīkarohia ana e ia ngā kanohi o Terekia; ā, herea ana ia e te kīngi o Papurōna ki te mekameka, kawea ana ki Papurōna, makā ana ki te whare herehere, ā taea noatia te rā i mate ai ia.

12 Nā, i te rima o ngā marama, i te tekau o ngā rā o te marama – ko te tekau mā iwa hoki ia o ngā tau o Kīngi Nepukareha kīngi o Papurōna – ka haere mai a Neputarārana rangatira o ngā kaitiaki, he tangata tū i te aroaro o te kīngi o Papurōna, ki Hiruhārama. 13 Nā, tahuna ake e ia te whare o Ihowā, me te whare o te kīngi; ā, tahuna ana e ia ki te ahi ngā whare katoa o Hiruhārama, ngā whare katoa hoki o te hunga nunui. 14 Nā, ka wāwāhia e te ope katoa o ngā Karari, e tā te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki, ngā taiepa katoa o Hiruhārama a whawhe noa. 15 Kātahi ka whakahekea atu e Neputarārana rangatira o ngā kaitiaki ētahi o ngā tino rawakore o te iwi, me ērā atu anō o te iwi i mahue ki te pā, me te iwi i papahoro atu, i taka atu ki te kīngi o Papurōna, me ngā mōrehu anō o taua huihui. 16 Engari i waiho e Neputarārana rangatira o ngā kaitiaki ētahi o ngā tino rawakore o te whenua hei kaimahi wāina, hei paruauru.

17 Nā, ko ngā pou parāhi i te whare o Ihowā, ko ngā tūranga me te moana parāhi i te whare o Ihowā, wāwāhia ana e ngā Karari, ā, maua atu ana e rātou te parāhi katoa o aua mea ki Papurōna. 18 I maua atu anō e rātou ngā pāta, ngā koko pungarehu, ngā kutikuti rama, ngā peihana, ngā koko, me ngā oko parāhi katoa mō ā rātou mahi tapu. 19 Ko ngā kapu, ko ngā paepae ngārahu, ko ngā peihana, ko ngā pāta, ko ngā tūranga rama, ko ngā koko, ko ngā oko, ko ngā mea i hangā ki te kōura, he kōura, ko ngā mea i hangā ki te hiriwa, he hiriwa, i maua katoatia atu e te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki.

20 Nā, ko ngā pou e rua, ko te moana kotahi, ko ngā pūru parāhi kotahi tekau mā rua i raro i ngā tūranga, i hangā nei e Kīngi Horomona mō te whare o Ihowā; kāhore he pāunatanga o te parāhi o ēnei oko katoa. 21 Nā, ko ngā pou, kotahi tekau mā waru whatīanga te tiketike o te pou kotahi; tekau mā rua hoki ngā whatīanga o te aho hei pae mōna; nā, ko te mātotoru, e whā ngā ringa; he tuwhera a roto. 22 Ā, ko te whakapaipai o runga he parāhi; ko te tiketike o te whakapaipai kotahi, e rima ngā whatīanga, he parāhi katoa te mea i whiria me ngā pamekaranete i tētahi taha o te whakapaipai, i tētahi taha. Rite tonu hoki ki ēnei o te rua o ngā pou, me ngā pamekaranete anō. 23 Nā, e iwa tekau mā ono ngā pamekaranete o ngā taha; ā, ko ngā pamekaranete katoa i te mea i whiria, kotahi te rau, ā whawhe noa.

24 Nā, tangohia ana e te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki a Heraia, te tino tohunga, me te tohunga tuarua, me Tepania, me ngā kaitiaki tokotoru o te kūwaha. 25 I tangohia hoki e ia i roto i te pā tētahi rangatira o ngā tāngata whawhai, tokowhitu hoki nō te aroaro pū ake o te kīngi, he hunga i rokohanga ki roto ki te pā; me te kaituhituhi a te rangatira ope, ko ia nei te kaihuihui i ngā tāngata o te whenua; e ono tekau hoki ngā tāngata o te iwi o te whenua, he hunga i rokohanga e ia ki roto ki te pā. 26 Nā, ka mau a Neputarārana rangatira o ngā kaitiaki ki a rātou, kawea ana ki te kīngi o Papurōna ki Ripira. 27 Nā, patua iho rātou e te kīngi o Papurōna, whakamatea iho ki Ripira, ki te whenua o Hāmata. Heoi, whakahekea atu ana a Hūrā i tōna oneone.

28 Ko te hunga tēnei i whakaraua atu e Nepukareha; i te whitu o ngā tau, e toru mano e rua tekau mā toru ngā Hūrai; 29 i te tekau mā waru o ngā tau o Nepukareha, e waru rau e toru tekau mā rua ngā tāngata i whakaraua atu e ia i Hiruhārama; 30 i te rua tekau mā toru o ngā tau o Nepukareha, e whitu rau e whā tekau mā rima ngā tāngata o ngā Hūrai i whakaraua atu e Neputarārana, e te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki. Ko aua tāngata katoa e whā mano e ono rau.

Ka Mariu a Iehoiakini i te Herehere

31 Nā, i te toru tekau mā whitu o ngā tau o te whakahekenga atu o Iehoiakini kīngi o Hūrā, i te tekau mā rua o ngā marama, i te rua tekau mā rima o ngā rā o te marama, ka whakaarahia e Ewiri Meroraka kīngi o Papurōna, i te tau tuatahi i kīngi ai ia, te māhunga o Iehoiakini kīngi o Hūrā whakaputaina ana ia e ia i roto i te whare herehere; 32 ā, kōrero pai ana ia ki a ia, nekehia ake ana e ia tōna torōna ki runga ake i te torōna o ngā kīngi i tōna taha i Papurōna. 33 Kākahuria ana e ia he kākahu kē i ōna kākahu o te herehere, ā, kai taro ana ia i tōna aroaro i ngā rā katoa i ora ai ia. 34 Nā, ko tāna kai he kai i hōmai tonu e te kīngi o Papurōna māna, he mea mō tēnei rā, mō tēnei rā, ā taea noatia te rā o tōna matenga, i ngā rā katoa i ora ai ia.