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Aconteceu que no ano nono do seu reinado, no décimo mês, aos dez dias do mês, veio Nabucodonozor, rei da Babilônia, com todo o exército contra Jerusalém, e acampou-se contra ela, e contra ela levantaram trincheiras ao redor. 
A cidade ficou sitiada até o undécimo ano de Zedequias. 
Aos nove dias do quarto mês viu-se a cidade apertada de fome, de modo que não havia pão para o povo da terra. 
Então se abriu uma brecha na cidade e todos os homens de guerra fugiram de noite pelo caminho da porta entre os dois muros, a qual está junto ao jardim do rei (ora os caldeus cercavam a cidade ao redor); e o rei fugiu pelo caminho da Araba. 
Mas o exército dos caldeus perseguiu ao rei e alcançou-o nas campinas de Jericó: e todo o exército do rei foi disperso para longe dele. 
Então o tomaram preso e o levaram a Ribla, ao rei da Babilônia; e foi-lhe pronunciada a sentença. 
Mataram aos filhos de Zedequias à sua vista, vasaram-lhe os olhos, ataram-no com cadeias e levaram-no para a Babilônia. 
Ora, no quinto mês, aos sete dias do mês, que era o décimo nono ano de Nabucodonozor, rei da Babilônia, veio a Jerusalém Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda, servo do rei da Babilônia. 
Queimou a casa de Jeová, e a casa do rei; todas as casas de Jerusalém, todas as casas importantes, ele as entregou às chamas. 
Todo o exército dos caldeus que estava com o capitão da guarda deitou abaixo em roda os muros de Jerusalém. 
Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda, transferiu o resto do povo que havia ficado na cidade e os que se tinham desertado para o rei da Babilônia, e o resto da multidão; 
mas deixou alguns dos mais pobres da terra para serem vinheiros e lavradores. 
Os caldeus despedaçaram as colunas de bronze, as bases e o mar de bronze que estavam na casa de Jeová, e levaram o bronze para a Babilônia. 
Levaram também as panelas, e as pás, e os apagadores, e as colheres, e todos os vasos de bronze de que usavam no ministério. 
Levou o capitão da guarda os braseiros e as bacias: o que era de ouro e o que era de prata. 
As duas colunas, um mar, e as bases que Salomão tinha feito para a casa de Jeová; o bronze de todos estes vasos não foi pesado. 
A altura duma coluna era de dezoito cúbitos, e sobre ela havia um capitel de bronze. O capitel tinha três cúbitos de alto; e uma rede e romãs sobre o capitel ao redor, tudo de bronze: semelhante a esta era a outra coluna com a rede. 
Levou também o capitão da guarda a Seraías, sumo sacerdote, e a Sofonias, segundo sacerdote, e aos três guardas do vestíbulo. 
Da cidade levou a um oficial que tinha a seu cargo a gente da guerra, e a cinco homens dos que assistiam ao rei e que se achavam na cidade, e ao escriba, capitão do exército, que registrava o povo da terra, e a sessenta homens do povo da terra que se achavam na cidade. 
Tomando-os Nebuzaradã, capitão da guarda, levou-os ao rei da Babilônia, a Ribla. 
O rei da Babilônia os feriu e matou em Ribla, na terra de Hamate. Assim Judá foi levado cativo para fora da sua terra. 
Quanto ao povo que tinha ficado na terra de Judá, que Nabucodonozor, rei da Babilônia, tinha deixado, este o pôs sob o governo de Gedalias, filho de Aicão, filho de Safã. 
Ora, ouvindo todos os capitães das forças com seus homens que o rei da Babilônia havia posto por governador a Gedalias, vieram ter com este a Mispa, a saber: Ismael, filho de Netanias, Joanã, filho de Careá, Seraías, filho de Tanumete netofatita, e Jazanias, filho do maacatita, eles e seus homens. 
Gedalias jurou-lhes a eles e aos seus homens e disse-lhes: Não tenhais medo por causa dos servos dos caldeus. Ficai na terra, e servi ao rei da Babilônia, e vos dareis bem. 
Sucedeu, porém, no sétimo mês que Ismael, filho de Netanias, filho de Elisama, de sangue real, veio com dez homens, e feriram a Gedalias, de maneira que ele morreu, e aos judeus e caldeus que com ele estavam em Mispa. 
Levantando-se todo o povo, tanto pequenos como grandes, e os capitães das forças, foram ao Egito; pois tiveram medo dos caldeus. 
No trigésimo sétimo ano do cativeiro de Joaquim, rei de Judá, no dia vinte e sete do duodécimo mês, Evil-Merodaque, rei da Babilônia, no ano em que começou a reinar levantou a cabeça de Joaquim, rei de Judá, tirando-o da prisão. 
Falou-lhe benignamente, pôs o seu trono acima do trono dos que estavam com ele em Babilônia, 
e fez-lhe mudar os vestidos de prisão. Joaquim comeu pão da mesa real todos os dias da sua vida. 
O rei proveu a sua subsistência, dando-lhe uma pensão diária, durante todos os dias da sua vida. 

Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town. 
And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 
Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land. 
So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah. 
But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction. 
And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged. 
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon. 
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem; 
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire; 
And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain. 
And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners; 
But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields. 
And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon. 
And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away. 
And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men. 
The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 
One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same. 
And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers; 
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town. 
These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 
And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land. 
As for the people who were still living in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler over them. 
Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men. 
Then Gedaliah gave his oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear because of the servants of the Chaldaeans; go on living in the land under the rule of the king of Babylon, and all will be well. 
But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah. 
Then all the people, small and great, and the captains of the forces, got up and went away to Egypt, for fear of the Chaldaeans. 
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison; 
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life. 
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life. 

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