a Jer 52:12
b Jer 39:8-12
c 1 Kin 9:8; 2 Chr 36:19; Ps 74:3-7
d Amos 2:5
e 2 Kin 14:13; Neh 1:3
f 2 Chr 36:20
g 2 Kin 24:14; Jer 40:7
h 1 Kin 7:15-22; 2 Kin 20:17; 2 Chr 3:15-17; 36:18
i 1 Kin 7:23-26; 2 Chr 4:2-4
k Ex 27:3; 1 Kin 7:47-50; 2 Chr 4:16
l 1 Kin 7:47
m 1 Kin 7:15-22
p 1 Chr 6:14; Ezra 7:1
q Jer 21:1; 29:25, 29
s Esth 1:14
v 2 Kin 23:33
w Deut 28:64; 2 Kin 23:27

2 Kings 25:8-21

Jerusalem Burned and Plundered

8 aNow on the seventh day of the bfifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 cHe burned the house of the Lord, dthe king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire. 10So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ebroke down the walls around Jerusalem. 11Then fthe rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile. 12But the captain of the guard left some of gthe poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

13 hNow the bronze pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and ithe bronze sea which were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the ▼
▼ Lit bronze of them
bronze to Babylon. 14 kThey took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service. 15The captain of the guard also took away the firepans and the basins, what was fine gold and what was fine silver. 16The two pillars, the one sea, and the stands which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord— lthe bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. 17 mThe height of the one pillar was eighteen ▼
▼ I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three ▼
▼ I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

18Then the captain of the guard took pSeraiah the chief priest and qZephaniah the second priest, with the three ▼
▼ Lit keepers of the door
officers of the temple. 19From the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and sfive ▼
▼ Lit men of those seeing the king’s face
of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; and the ▼
▼ Or scribe, a captain
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 city. 20Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at vRiblah. 21Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. wSo Judah was led away into exile from its land.
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