Jeremiah 52 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Jeremiah 52The Destruction of Jerusalem Reviewed

1 and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.

8Jer 21.7; 32.4; 34.21; 37.17; 38.23But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered, deserting him.

92 Kings 25.6; Jer 32.4; 39.5Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

10Jer 39.6The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the officers of Judah at Riblah.

11Jer 39.7; Ezek 12.13He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

12 2 Kings 25.8–21; Jer 39.9 In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

132 Chr 36.19; Jer 39.8; Lam 2.7; Mic 3.12He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

142 Kings 25.10All the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

152 Kings 25.11; Jer 39.9Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.

162 Kings 25.12; Jer 39.10; 40.2–6But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.

17 1 Kings 7.15; Jer 27.19–22 The pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried all the bronze to Babylon.

181 Kings 7.40, 45They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service.

191 Kings 7.49, 50The captain of the guard took away the small bowls also, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the ladles, and the bowls for libation, both those of gold and those of silver.

201 Kings 7.47As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weighing.

211 Kings 7.15As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; its circumference was twelve cubits; it was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers.

221 Kings 7.16, 20, 42Upon it was a capital of bronze; the height of the capital was five cubits; latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, encircled the top of the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates.

23There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates encircling the latticework numbered one hundred.

24 2 Kings 25.18; Jer 21.1; 29.25; 35.4; 37.3 The captain of the guard took the chief priest Seraiah, the second priest Zephaniah, and the three guardians of the threshold.

25From the city he took an officer who had been in command of the soldiers, seven men of the king’s council who were found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found inside the city.

26vv 9, 12, 15, 16; 2 Kings 25.20, 21Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

27Isa 6.11, 12; Jer 13.19; Ezek 33.28; Mic 4.10And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile out of its land.

28 2 Kings 24.2, 3, 12–16; Neh 7.6; Dan 1.1–3 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans;

29in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took into exile from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;

302 Kings 25.11; Jer 39.9in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile of the Judeans seven hundred forty-five persons; all the persons were four thousand six hundred.

Jehoiachin Favored in Captivity

31 Gen 40.13; 2 Kings 25.27–30 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he began to reign, showed favor to King Jehoiachin of Judah and brought him out of prison;

32he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

33Gen 41.14, 42; 2 Sam 9.13; 1 Kings 2.7So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes, and every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table.

342 Sam 9.10For his allowance, a regular daily allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, as long as he lived, up to the day of his death.

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