2 Kings
2 Kings 25
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2 Kings 25 — Scripture text (King James Version)
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that king of came, he, and all his host, against , and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king . And the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. And the army of the pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of : and all his army were scattered from him. So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of to ; and they gave judgment upon him. And they slew the sons of before his eyes, and out the eyes of , and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to . And in the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king king of , came -adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of , unto : And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of , and every great man’s house burnt he with fire. And all the army of the , that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of round about. Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of , with the of the multitude, did -adan the captain of the guard carry away. But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to . And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. And the firepans, and , and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. The height of the one pillar was eighteen , and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three ; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: And -adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of to : And the king of smote them, and slew them at in the land of . So was carried away out of their land. And as for the people that remained in the land of , whom king of had left, even over them he made the son of , the son of , ruler. And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of had made governor, there came to to , even the son of , and the son of , and the son of the , and the son of a , they and their men. And sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the : dwell in the land, and serve the king of ; and it shall be with you. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that the son of , the son of , of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote , that he died, and the and the that were with him at . And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to : for they were afraid of the . And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of king of , in the twelfth month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, that -merodach king of in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of king of out of prison; And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in ; And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.