The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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[h=1](2 Kings 24:18): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 24:19 (KJV)


And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 24:20 (KJV)


For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 25 (KJV)

25 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 25:2 (KJV)


[FONT=&quot]And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 25:3): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]3 By 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.


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[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 25:4): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]4 Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled 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,


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[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 25:5 (NIV)

but the Babylonian army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 25:6 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]and he was captured.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where sentence was pronounced on him.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 25:7 (NIV)
They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 25:8 (NIV)


On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 25:9 (NIV)

He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

 

[Shamah]

2 Kings 25:10 And all the army of the Kasdim who were with the chief of the guard broke down the walls of Yerushalayim all around."

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 25:11 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 25:12 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]But the commander left behind some of the poorest people[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the land to work the vineyards and fields.[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 25:13 (NIV)


The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the Lord and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 25:14 (NIV)


They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 25:15 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—all that were made of pure gold or silver.[/FONT]

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Kings 25:16
New International Version (NIV)

The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 25:17 (NIV)


Each pillar was eighteen cubits high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.