NITHYAM SONGS2 Kings 25
World English Bible (WEB) • 30 verses
1In 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 around it.
RelatedJeremiah 52:4-11 · Jeremiah 34:1-6 · 1 Chronicles 6:15 · Jeremiah 43:10 · Isaiah 29:3 · 2 Kings 24:1
2So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
RelatedLeviticus 26:26 · Jeremiah 38:2 · Ezekiel 7:15 · Ezekiel 14:21 · Deuteronomy 28:52-53 · Ezekiel 5:12
4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled 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 around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
RelatedEzekiel 33:21 · Nehemiah 3:15 · Deuteronomy 28:25 · Deuteronomy 32:30 · 2 Kings 25:5 · Deuteronomy 32:24-25
5But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
6Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
Related2 Kings 23:33 · Jeremiah 34:21-22 · Jeremiah 38:23 · Ezekiel 17:20-21 · Jeremiah 21:7 · Lamentations 4:19-20
7They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
RelatedJeremiah 32:4-5 · Judges 16:21 · Deuteronomy 28:34 · Ezekiel 7:27 · Ezekiel 12:13-16 · Jeremiah 39:6-7
8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the 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.
RelatedJeremiah 52:12-16 · Lamentations 4:12 · Jeremiah 39:8-14 · Jeremiah 40:1-4 · 2 Kings 25:27 · 2 Kings 24:12
9He burned the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every great house with fire.
10All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
11Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who were left in the city and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon—all the rest of the multitude.
RelatedJeremiah 39:9 · Jeremiah 15:1-2 · Ezekiel 5:2 · Jeremiah 52:12 · Ezekiel 12:15-16 · 2 Chronicles 36:20
12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
13The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze that were in the LORD’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the LORD’s house, and carried the bronze pieces to Babylon.
Related2 Chronicles 36:18 · Lamentations 1:10 · 1 Kings 7:15 · Jeremiah 52:17-20 · 2 Kings 20:17 · 2 Chronicles 4:12-16
14They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
15The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, for gold, and that which was of silver, for silver.
RelatedDaniel 5:2-3 · 1 Kings 7:48-51 · Ezra 1:9-11 · Exodus 37:23 · 2 Chronicles 24:14 · Numbers 7:13-14
16The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the LORD’s house, the bronze of all these vessels was not weighed.
Related1 Kings 7:47
17The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.
18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
RelatedJeremiah 29:25 · Jeremiah 21:1 · 1 Chronicles 6:14 · Ezra 7:1 · Jeremiah 52:24 · Jeremiah 29:29
19and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, 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.
RelatedEsther 1:14
20Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
21The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
RelatedDeuteronomy 28:64 · 2 Kings 23:27 · Amos 5:27 · Deuteronomy 4:26 · Ezekiel 24:14 · Jeremiah 25:9-11
22As for the people who were left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
RelatedJeremiah 39:14 · 2 Kings 22:12 · 2 Chronicles 34:20 · Jeremiah 41:2 · Jeremiah 26:24 · 2 Kings 25:25
23Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
24Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
25But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah so that he died, with the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
26All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison,
RelatedGenesis 40:20 · Jeremiah 52:31-34 · Genesis 40:13 · 2 Kings 24:12 · Proverbs 21:1 · 2 Kings 24:15
28and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
29and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
30and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.