21
Now concerning the pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.
22
A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. The second pillar, with pomegranates was the same.
23
There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around on the network, were one hundred.
24
The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.
25
He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king's close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
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And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.
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These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
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in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;
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in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons. All the persons were four thousand six hundred.
31
Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
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And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
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So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life.
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And as for his provisions, there was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.