2 Kings 25:8-17

8On the seventh day of the fifth month — which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon — Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

9He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.

10The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down the walls surrounding Jerusalem.

11Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.

12But the captain of the guards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.

13Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars of the Lord’s temple, the water carts, and the bronze basin, which were in the Lord’s temple, and carried the bronze to Babylon.

14They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the priests’ service.

15The captain of the guards took away the firepans and sprinkling basins — whatever was gold or silver.

16As for the two pillars, the one basin, and the water carts that Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.

17One pillar was twenty-seven feet tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.