^aZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ^bHamutal the daughter of ¹Jeremiah of ^cLibnah. 2+@Kin 24:18-25:21 2 He did that which was ^aevil in the sight of the LORD like all that ^bJehoiakim had done. 3 For all this came about in Jerusalem and Judah because of the ^aanger of the LORD, and in the end He cast them from His presence. And Zedekiah ^brebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 ^aNow it came about in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they camped against it and built moveable towers and ^bsiege mounds all around it. Jer 39:1-10 5 ^aSo the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 2+@Chr 36:11-13 6 In the ^afourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the ^bfamine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was ^abroken into, and all the ^bsoldiers fled. They left the city at night as Ezekiel prophesied passing through the gate between the two walls by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were ^call around the city. They fled by way of the Arabah (the Jordan Valley) . Ezek 12:12 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and ^aovertook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and his entire army was scattered from him. 9 Then they seized the king and ^abrought him to the king of Babylon at ^bRiblah in the Syrian land of ^cHamath on the northern border of Israel, where he pronounced sentence on him. 10 The king of Babylon ^akilled the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah at Riblah. 11 Then the king of Babylon ^ablinded Zedekiah, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon and there he put him in prison ¹in a mill until the day of his death. Ezek 12:13

12 ^aNow in the fifth month, on the tenth day, which was the ^bnineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^cNebuzaradan captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13 He ^aburned down the house of the LORD and the ^bking’s palace and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house or important structure he set on fire. 14 So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^abroke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard ^atook away into exile some of the poorest of the people, those who were left in the city at the time it was captured, along with those ^bwho deserted to join the king of Babylon during the siege and the rest of the artisans. 16 But ^aNebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.

17 Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the ^apillars of bronze which belonged to the house of the LORD, and the bronze ^bpedestals which supported the ten basins and the enormous bronze ^cSea, which were in the house of the LORD, and carried all the bronze to Babylon. 18 They also took away the ^apots for carrying away ashes and the shovels and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. 19 The captain of the guard also took away the small ^abowls and the firepans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the incense cups and the bowls for the drink offerings—whatever was made of fine gold and whatever was made of fine silver. 20 The two pillars, the one enormous Sea (basin) , and ¹the twelve bronze bulls under the Sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD—the bronze of all these things was ^abeyond weighing. 21 Concerning the pillars, the ^aheight of each pillar was eighteen cubits (twenty-seven feet) , and a line an ornamental molding of twelve cubits (eighteen feet) went around its ^bcircumference; it was four fingers thick, and the pillar was hollow. 22 A ^acapital of bronze was on top of it. The height of each capital was five cubits (seven and one-half feet) , with a lattice-work and ^bpomegranates around it, all of bronze. The second pillar also, with its pomegranates, was similar to these. 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; and a hundred ^apomegranates were on the lattice-work all around.

24 Then the captain of the guard took as prisoners ^aSeraiah the chief priest and ^bZephaniah the second priest and the three ^cdoorkeepers. 25 He also took out of the city one official who was overseer of the soldiers, and seven of the ^aking’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men who were still in the city. 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and ^abrought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 Then the king of Babylon ^astruck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was ^bled away into exile from its own land.

28 This is the number of people whom ^aNebuchadnezzar took captive and exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he took captive 832 persons from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, ^aNebuzaradan the captain of the Babylonian guard took captive 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

31 ^aNow it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin also called Coniah and Jeconiah king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, ^1bshowed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. 2+@Kin 25:27-30 32 ^aHe spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne above the thrones of the kings who were captives with him in Babylon. 33 Jehoiachin ^achanged his prison clothes, and he ^bdined regularly at the king’s table all the days of his life. 34 And his allowance, a ^aregular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion according to his needs until the day of his death, ¹all the days of his life.