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Tzidqiyahu was a son of twenty-one years when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Chamutal daughter of Yirmeyahu from Livnah.
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And he did evil in the eyes of Yahuah according to all that Yehoyaqim had done.
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For because of the anger of Yahuah it came to be in Yerushalayim and Yehudah, until He cast them from before His face. And Tzidqiyahu rebelled against the sovereign of Bavel.
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And it came to be in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth new moon, on the tenth day of the new moon, that Nevukhadretztzar sovereign of Bavel came—he and all his army—against Yerushalayim. They encamped against it and built a siege wall against it all around.
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And the city entered the siege until the eleventh year of Sovereign Tzidqiyahu.
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In the fourth new moon, on the ninth day of the new moon, the famine was strong in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Then the city was broken open, and all the men of battle fled and went out from the city by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls that was beside the garden of the sovereign, while the Kasdim were against the city all around. And they went by the way of the Aravah.
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But the army of the Kasdim pursued the sovereign and overtook Tzidqiyahu in the plains of Yericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
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Then they captured the sovereign and brought him up to the sovereign of Bavel at Rivlah in the land of Chamat, and he spoke Judgments with him.
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And the sovereign of Bavel slaughtered the sons of Tzidqiyahu before his eyes. He also slaughtered all the rulers of Yehudah at Rivlah.
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And he blinded the eyes of Tzidqiyahu, and the sovereign of Bavel bound him with bronze chains and brought him to Bavel. And he placed him in the house of visitation until the day of his death.
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And in the fifth new moon, on the tenth day of the new moon— which was the nineteenth year of Sovereign Nevukhadretztzar, sovereign of Bavel— Nevuzaradan chief of the guards, who stood before the face of the sovereign of Bavel, came to Yerushalayim.
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And he burned the House of Yahuah, the house of the sovereign, and all the houses of Yerushalayim. Every great house he burned with fire.
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And all the army of the Kasdim who were with the chief of the guards pulled down all the walls of Yerushalayim all around.
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And some from the poor of the people, the remainder of the people remaining in the city, those who had fallen away to the sovereign of Bavel, and the remainder of the multitude, Nevuzaradan chief of the guards exiled.
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But from the poor of the land Nevuzaradan chief of the guards caused some to remain as vine dressers and farmers.
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And the bronze pillars that were in the House of Yahuah, the stands, and the bronze sea that was in the House of Yahuah, the Kasdim broke and carried all their bronze to Bavel.
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And they took the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the bronze vessels with which they served.
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And the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups— what was gold in gold and what was silver in silver— the chief of the guards took.
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The two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls beneath the sea, and the stands that Sovereign Shelomoh had made for the House of Yahuah— the bronze of all these vessels was without weight.
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And concerning the pillars: eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a measuring line of twelve cubits surrounded it. Its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.
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And a capital of bronze was upon it. The height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar and its pomegranates were like these.
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And there were ninety-six pomegranates toward the winds; all the pomegranates upon the network all around were one hundred.
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And the chief of the guards took Serayahu the chief Kohen, Tzephanyahu the second Kohen, and the three guardians of the threshold.
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And from the city he took one eunuch who was appointed over the men of battle, seven men of those seeing the face of the sovereign who were found in the city, the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
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And Nevuzaradan chief of the guards took them and brought them to the sovereign of Bavel at Rivlah.
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And the sovereign of Bavel struck them and put them to death at Rivlah in the land of Chamat. And Yehudah was exiled from upon its ground.
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This is the people whom Nevukhadretztzar exiled: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three from Yehudah;
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in the eighteenth year of Nevukhadretztzar, eight hundred thirty-two beings from Yerushalayim;
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in the twenty-third year of Nevukhadretztzar, Nevuzaradan chief of the guards exiled seven hundred forty-five beings from Yehudah. All the beings were four thousand six hundred.
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And it came to be in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Yehoyakhin sovereign of Yehudah, in the twelfth new moon, on the twenty-fifth day of the new moon, that Evil-Merodakh sovereign of Bavel, in the year of his reign, lifted the head of Yehoyakhin sovereign of Yehudah and brought him out from the house of confinement.
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And he spoke good things with him and placed his throne above the thrones of the sovereigns who were with him in Bavel.
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And he changed the garments of his confinement, and he ate bread before his face continually all the days of his life.
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And his allowance— a continual allowance was given to him from the sovereign of Bavel, the matter of a day in its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.