1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. 2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done. 3It was because of the Lord’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence. Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. 5The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. 7Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians⚓ were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,⚓8but the Babylonian⚓ army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, 9and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him. 10There at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the officials of Judah. 11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death. 12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. 14The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen⚓ and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon. 16But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields. 17The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the Lord and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. 18They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. 19The commander of the imperial guard took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls used for drink offerings—all that were made of pure gold or silver. 20The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, was more than could be weighed. 21Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference⚓ ; each was four fingers thick, and hollow. 22The bronze capital on top of one pillar was five cubits⚓ high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar. 23There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the surrounding network was a hundred. 24The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers. 25Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city. 26Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land. 28This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem; 30in his twenty-third year, 745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard. There were 4,600 people in all.
Jehoiachin Released
31In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison. 32He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 33So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table. 34Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.
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Yeluxalees puam tsuaj
(2Vntx. 24:18-25:27; Ylm. 39:1-10)
1Thaum Xedekhiya sawv ua vajntxwv nws hnub nyoog muaj nees nkaum ib xyoos. Nws nyob hauv Yeluxalees kav tau kaum ib xyoos. Nws niam npe hu ua Hamuthas uas yog Yelemi uas nyob hauv lub moos Lina tus ntxhais. 2Nws ua tej uas Yawmsaub pom tias phem kawg, ib yam li txhua yam uas Yehauyakhi tau ua lawd. 3Twb yog vim Yawmsaub chim heev thiaj muaj tej xwm txheej no huvsi tshwm rau hauv Yeluxalees thiab Yuda, mas Yawmsaub thiaj muab lawv laim ploj ntawm nws lub xubntiag mus. Xedekhiya fav xeeb rau Npanpiloo tus vajntxwv. 4Xyoo cuaj uas vajntxwv Nenpukhanexa kav hauv Npanpiloo, hnub xiab kaum lub kaum hli nws coj nws cov tub rog huvsi tuaj ua rog rau Yeluxalees thiab vij lub nroog cia. Lawv tsub av vij puag ncig lub nroog. 5Lub nroog thiaj raug vij mus txog xyoo kaum ib uas Xedekhiya ua vajntxwv. 6Hnub xiab cuaj lub plaub hlis muaj kev tshaib nqhis loj heev hauv lub nroog, tsis muaj zaub mov dabtsi li rau cov pejxeem noj. 7Lub ntsa loog thiaj raug tsoo pob ib qho. Txawm yog cov Kheedia nyob vij lub nroog los vajntxwv thiab cov tub rog sawvdaws khiav tawm hmo ntuj hla vajntxwv lub vaj tawm lub rooj loog taug txojkev uas muaj ob sab ntsa loog mus. Lawv txawm khiav yuav mus rau Alanpa. 8Tiamsis Kheedia cov tub rog caum vajntxwv Xedekhiya qab thiab caum cuag nws rau ntawm lub tiaj Yelikhau, mas vajntxwv cov tub rog txawm khiav ua sab ua sua tag lawm. 9Lawv thiaj ntes tau vajntxwv thiab coj nws mus cuag Npanpiloo tus vajntxwv ntawm lub moos Linpla hauv Hama tebchaws, mas vajntxwv Npanpiloo txiav txim rau nws. 10Npanpiloo tus vajntxwv tua Xedekhiya cov tub tab meeg nws, thiab tua Yuda cov thawj huvsi pov tseg rau ntawm lub moos Linpla. 11Nws muab Xedekhiya ob lub qhov muag kaus pov tseg thiab muab saw hlau khi nws mas vajntxwv Npanpiloo coj nws mus rau Npanpiloo thiab muab nws kaw hauv tsev lojfaj txog hnub uas nws tuag. 12Hnub xiab kaum lub tsib hlis, yog xyoo kaum cuaj uas Nenpukhanexa ua vajntxwv kav hauv Npanpiloo, mas Nenpuxaladas uas yog tus thawj rog zov vajntxwv thiab tu vajntxwv Npanpiloo txawm txeem mus rau hauv Yeluxalees. 13Nws muab Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev thiab vajntxwv lub tsev thiab tej tsev hauv Yeluxalees huvsi hlawv pov tseg. Nws hlawv tej tsev loj txhua lub kub hnyiab tag huvsi. 14Thiab cov tub rog Kheedia sawvdaws uas nrog tus thawj rog zov vajntxwv ua ke kuj tsoo tej ntsa loog Yeluxalees pob tag huvsi. 15Nenpuxaladas uas yog tus thawj rog zov vajntxwv kuav kiag cov pejxeem uas pluag kawg ib txhia thiab cov uas tseem tshuav nyob hauv lub nroog thiab cov uas khiav mus zwm rau Npanpiloo tus vajntxwv, thiab cov Kws txawj ua txhua yam uas tseem tshuav nyob tawm tebchaws mus. 16Tiamsis tus thawj rog uas zov vajntxwv tseg cov neeg uas pluag kawg hauv lub tebchaws ib txhia nyob tu vaj txiv hmab thiab laij teb. 17Tej ncej tooj liab uas nyob hauv Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev thiab tej tsheb thawb dej thiab lub rhawv dej tooj liab uas nyob hauv Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev, mas cov Kheedia muab tsoo ua tej dwb daim thiab coj kiag tej tooj liab huvsi mus rau Npanpiloo. 18Lawv kuj coj tej laujkaub, tej duav phuaj, tej tais khwb teeb xeeb, tej phaj loj thiab tej tais rau hmoov tshuaj tsw qab thiab tej twj taig tooj liab txhua yam uas siv hauv lub tuam tsev mus. 19Tus thawj rog uas zov vajntxwv coj tej phaj me, tej duav hlau yawm ncaig taws, tej phaj loj, tej laujkaub thiab tej ncej txawb teeb, thiab tej tais rau hmoov tshuaj tsw qab, thiab tej tais hliv cawv txiv hmab xyeem mus, yog txhua yam uas xuas tseem kub thiab xuas nyiaj ua. 20Tej tooj liab uas ua ob tug ncej thiab lub rhawv dej thiab kaum ob tug nyuj tooj liab uas tiag lub rhawv dej, thiab tej tsheb thawb dej uas Xalaumoo ua cia rau hauv Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev, hnyav dhau luj tsis tag. 21Ib tug ncej siab kaum yim tshim, ntsuas puag ncig muaj kaum ob tshim, khoob qhov tuab plaub ntiv. 22Muaj lub hau ncej tooj liab txawb rau saum lub hau ncej siab tsib tshim. Thiab muaj ib daim ntxais qhov muag tooj liab thiab tej lub txiv ntsiav kws tooj liab, nyob puag ncig lub hau ncej. Tus ncej uas ob kuj zoo ib yam nkaus thiab muaj tej lub txiv ntsiav kws. 23Ib ncig tus ncej muaj cuaj caum rau lub txiv ntsiav kws, huvsi muaj ib puas lub txiv ntsiav kws dai ib ncig saum daim ntxais qhov muag ntawd. 24Tus thawj rog uas zov vajntxwv kuj ntes Xelaya uas yog tus tuam pov thawj hlob thiab Xefaniya uas yog pov thawj yau thiab peb tug uas zov qhov rooj tuam tsev. 25Ntawm lub nroog nws kuj ntes ib tug thawj rog uas saib xyuas cov tub rog thiab xya tus uas ua vajntxwv lub chaw sablaj uas tseem nyob hauv lub nroog, thiab ntes tus tub sau ntawv ntawm tus thawj rog uas txhij tub rog thoob tebchaws, thiab ntes cov pejxeem rau caum leej uas tseem nyob hauv lub nroog. 26Nenpuxaladas uas ua tus thawj rog zov vajntxwv ntes cov neeg no coj los txog ntawm vajntxwv Npanpiloo hauv lub moos Linpla. 27Mas Npanpiloo tus vajntxwv muab lawv nplawm thiab muab lawv tua pov tseg rau ntawm lub moos Linpla hauv Hama tebchaws. Yuda thiaj raug muab ntes kuav tawm hauv nws lub tebchaws mus lawm. 28Ntawm no mus yog cov neeg uas Nenpukhanexa ntes coj mus, mas xyoo xya uas Nenpukhanexa ua vajntxwv kav nws coj cov Yudai peb txhiab nees nkaum peb leeg mus. 29Xyoo kaum yim uas nws kav, nws ntes cov hauv Yeluxalees yim pua peb caug ob leeg kuav mus. 30Xyoo nees nkaum peb uas Nenpukhanexa kav, Nenpuxaladas uas yog tus thawj rog zov vajntxwv ntes cov Yudai xya pua plaub caug tsib leeg kuav mus. Xam huvsi yog plaub txhiab rau pua leej.
Tso Yehauyakhee dim hauv tsev lojfaj
(2Vntx. 25:27-30)
31Thaum Yuda tus vajntxwv Yehauyakhee raug ntes tau peb caug xya xyoo mas hnub tim nees nkaum tsib lub kaum ob hlis rau xyoo uas Evimelauda sawv ua vajntxwv kav hauv Npanpiloo, Evimelauda ua zoo rau Yuda tus vajntxwv Yehauyakhee thiab muab nws tso tawm hauv tsev lojfaj los. 32Nws hais zoo rau Yehauyakhee thiab pub nws nyob lub rooj siab dua tej vajntxwv uas nrog nws nyob hauv Npanpiloo txhua tus. 33Yehauyakhee txawm hle cev tsoos tsho raug txim, thiab nws niaj hnub tau nrog vajntxwv koom rooj noj mov mus tag sim neej. 34Vajntxwv pheej pub qhov txhia chaw tsis tu ncua rau Yehauyakhee raws li uas niaj hnub cheem tsum mus tag nws sim neej.