8
And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which
was the year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a slave of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9
And he burnt the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great
man’s house he burnt with fire.
10
And all the army of the Chaldees, that
were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11
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, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried away.
12
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
13
And the Chaldees broke in pieces the pillars of brass that
were in the house of the LORD and the bases and the brasen sea that
was in the house of the LORD and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14
They also took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the spoons and all the vessels of brass, with which they ministered.
15
And the censers and the bowls
and such things as
were of gold
in gold and of silver
in silver the captain of the guard took away, also
16
the two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17
The height of the one pillar
was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it
was brass; and the height of the chapiter three cubits, and network and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass; and the second pillar was like
the first with network.
18
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the door;