2 Kings 25

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:1 · 2Ki 24:10 · 1Chr 6:15 · 2Chr 36:17 · Isa 29:3 · Jer 27:8 · +13 more

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.Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · Deut 28:52 · Jer 37:21 · Jer 38:2 · Jer 39:2 · Jer 52:6 · +7 more

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.Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 32:24 · Deut 32:30 · 2Ki 25:5 · +6 more

5But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.Cross-references: Isa 30:16 · Jer 24:8 · Jer 39:5 · Jer 52:8 · Amos 2:14

6Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:33 · 2Chr 33:11 · Jer 21:7 · Jer 32:4 · Jer 34:21 · Jer 38:23 · +4 more

7They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.Cross-references: Gen 21:16 · Gen 44:34 · Deut 28:34 · Judg 16:21 · 2Chr 33:11 · 2Chr 36:6 · +10 more

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:12 · 2Ki 25:27 · Jer 39:8 · Jer 40:1 · Jer 52:12 · Lam 4:12 · +1 more

9He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every great house with fire.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 36:19 · Ps 74:3 · Ps 79:1 · Isa 64:10 · Jer 7:14 · +12 more

10All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.Cross-references: Neh 1:3 · Jer 5:10 · Jer 39:8 · Jer 52:14

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.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:20 · Jer 15:1 · Jer 39:9 · Jer 52:12 · Ezek 5:2 · Ezek 12:15 · +1 more

12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:14 · Jer 39:10 · Jer 40:7 · Jer 52:16 · Ezek 33:24

13The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the bronze pieces to Babylon.Cross-references: Ex 27:3 · 1Ki 7:15 · 1Ki 7:23 · 2Ki 20:17 · 2Chr 4:2 · 2Chr 4:12 · +4 more

14They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.Cross-references: Ex 27:3 · Ex 38:3 · 1Ki 7:47 · 2Chr 4:20 · 2Chr 24:14

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.Cross-references: Ex 37:23 · Num 7:13 · 1Ki 7:48 · 2Chr 24:14 · Ezra 1:9 · Dan 5:2

16The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the bronze of all these vessels was not weighed.Cross-references: 1Ki 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 7:15 · Jer 52:21

18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;Cross-references: 2Ki 25:24 · 1Chr 6:14 · Ezra 7:1 · Jer 21:1 · Jer 29:25 · Jer 29:29 · +1 more

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.Cross-references: Esth 1:14

20Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:33 · Jer 52:26 · Lam 4:16

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.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:64 · 2Ki 17:20 · 2Ki 23:27 · +5 more

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 22:12 · 2Ki 25:25 · 2Chr 34:20 · Jer 26:24 · Jer 39:14 · Jer 40:5 · +1 more

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.Cross-references: Josh 18:26 · Jer 40:7 · Jer 40:11

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.”Cross-references: 2Sam 14:11 · 2Sam 19:23 · Jer 40:9 · Jer 43:6 · Ezek 33:24

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 11:1 · Jer 40:15 · Zech 7:5 · Zech 8:19

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.Cross-references: Jer 41:16 · Jer 42:14 · Jer 43:4

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,Cross-references: Gen 40:13 · Gen 40:20 · 2Ki 24:12 · 2Ki 24:15 · Prov 21:1 · Jer 24:5 · +1 more

28and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,Cross-references: Jer 27:6 · Dan 2:37 · Dan 5:18

29and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;Cross-references: Gen 41:14 · Gen 41:42 · 2Sam 9:7 · 2Ki 24:12 · Esth 4:4 · Esth 8:15 · +3 more

30and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.Cross-references: Gen 48:15 · Neh 11:23 · Neh 12:47 · Dan 1:5 · Matt 6:11 · Luke 11:3 · +1 more