Jeremiah · 34 verses
Jeremiah 52
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A king leaves his prison clothes behind, eats at another king’s table, and receives a daily portion until death.
The city breachedvv. 1–11
Zedekiah reigns eleven years in Jerusalem, does evil as Jehoiakim did, and rebels against Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar brings an army, a siege wall, and eventually famine; when the city is breached, the men of war flee by night, but the Chaldeans catch Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. At Riblah, the punishment is arranged with dreadful precision: Zedekiah sees his sons killed, then loses his own eyes and is carried to Babylon in bronze shackles.
Jerusalem emptiedvv. 12–30
Nebuzaradan enters Jerusalem and burns the house of the LORD, the palace, and every significant building, while the Chaldeans break down the city walls. The bronze work is dismantled and carried away, including the pillars, the Sea, the twelve bulls, and Solomon’s stands; the pomegranates receive an almost comically exact inventory, ninety-six here and a hundred there. Priests, officials, advisers, craftsmen, deserters, and people found in the city are taken to Riblah and put to death. Some of the poorest remain to tend vineyards and fields, while Judah is carried away from its own land in three numbered removals.
A table in Babylonvv. 31–34
After thirty-seven years of Jehoiachin’s exile, Evil-merodach pardons him and releases him from prison. He speaks kindly to him, raises his throne above the other royal thrones, and gives him a regular place at the table. The final detail is wonderfully domestic: Jehoiachin changes clothes, dines for the rest of his life, and receives a daily portion until the day of his death.
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Jer 52:1Zedekiah 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.
Jer 52:2And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
Jer 52:3For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Jer 52:4So 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 entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
Jer 52:5And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
Jer 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
Jer 52:7Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
Jer 52:8but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
Jer 52:9The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
Jer 52:10There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.
Jer 52:11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
Jer 52:12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
Jer 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
Jer 52:14And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
Jer 52:15Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
Jer 52:16But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Jer 52:17Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
Jer 52:18They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
Jer 52:19The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
Jer 52:20As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
Jer 52:21Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
Jer 52:22The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
Jer 52:23Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.
Jer 52:24The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
Jer 52:25Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
Jer 52:26Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Jer 52:27There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
Jer 52:28These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
Jer 52:29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
Jer 52:30in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
Jer 52:31On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
Jer 52:32And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
Jer 52:33So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
Jer 52:34And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
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Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 268 passages were voted onto 32 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 312 Kings 25:27–30On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- 122 Kings 25:8On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
- 242 Kings 25:18The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- 31Psalms 3:3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
- 4Jeremiah 39:1In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.
- 11Ezekiel 12:13But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.
- 132 Chronicles 36:19Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
- 13Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
- 13Psalms 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- 252 Kings 25:19Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
- 342 Samuel 9:10You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
- 12 Kings 24:18Zedekiah 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.
- 1Joshua 10:29Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.
- 32 Chronicles 36:13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 4Ezekiel 24:1–2In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- 4Zechariah 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
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