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And it came to pass in the ninthyear of his reign, in the tenthmonth, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzarking of Babyloncame, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they builtforts against it round about.
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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'sgarden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
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And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
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And in the fifthmonth, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth**year of kingNebuchadnezzarking of Babylon,cameNebuzaradan,captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
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Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
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And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasensea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
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The height of the onepillar was eighteen*cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiterthreecubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the secondpillar with wreathen work.
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And out of the city he tookanofficer that was set over the men of war, and fivemen of them that were in the king'spresence, which were found in the city, and the principalscribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescoremen of the people of the land that were found in the city:
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And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzarking of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,ruler.
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And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men,heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliahgovernor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
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And Gedaliahsware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees:dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
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But it came to pass in the seventhmonth, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seedroyal,came, and tenmen with him, and smoteGedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtiethyear of the captivity of Jehoiachinking of Judah, in the twelfth*month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodachking of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachinking of Judah out of prison*;