New American Standard Bible 1995

Jeremiah 52:4-16

4 1Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a 2siege wall all around 3it. 5 4So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6On the ninth day of the 5fourth month the 6famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7Then the city was 7broken into, and all the 8men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were 9 10all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. 8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and 11overtook Zedekiah in the 12plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9Then they captured the king and 13brought him up to the king of Babylon at 14Riblah in the land of 15Hamath, and he 16passed sentence on him. 10The king of Babylon 17slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the 18princes of Judah in Riblah. 11Then he 19blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

12 20Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the 21nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 22Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, 23who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13He 24burned the house of the Lord, the 25king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire. 14So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard 26broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard 27carried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the 28 29deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans. 16But 30Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and 31plowmen.

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1. Jeremiah 52:4 2 Kin 25:1; Jer 39:1; Ezek 24:1, 2; Zech 8:19 ↩
2. Jeremiah 52:4 Jer 32:24 ↩
3. Jeremiah 52:4 Lit against it ↩
4. Jeremiah 52:5 2 Kin 25:2 ↩
5. Jeremiah 52:6 Jer 39:2 ↩
6. Jeremiah 52:6 2 Kin 25:3; Is 3:1; Jer 38:9; Ezek 4:16; 5:16; 14:13 ↩
7. Jeremiah 52:7 2 Kin 25:4; Jer 39:2 ↩
8. Jeremiah 52:7 Jer 39:4-7; 51:32 ↩
9. Jeremiah 52:7 Lit against the city on every side ↩
10. Jeremiah 52:7 Ezek 33:21 ↩
11. Jeremiah 52:8 Jer 21:7; 32:4; 34:21; 37:17; 38:23 ↩
12. Jeremiah 52:8 Lit Arabah ↩
13. Jeremiah 52:9 2 Kin 25:6; Jer 32:4; 39:5 ↩
14. Jeremiah 52:9 Num 34:11; Jer 39:5 ↩
15. Jeremiah 52:9 Num 13:21; Josh 13:5 ↩
16. Jeremiah 52:9 Lit spoke judgments with ↩
17. Jeremiah 52:10 2 Kin 25:7; Jer 22:30; 39:6 ↩
18. Jeremiah 52:10 Or commanders ↩
19. Jeremiah 52:11 Jer 39:7; Ezek 12:13 ↩
20. Jeremiah 52:12 2 Kin 25:8-21; Zech 7:5; 8:19 ↩
21. Jeremiah 52:12 2 Kin 24:12; 25:8; Jer 52:29 ↩
22. Jeremiah 52:12 Jer 39:9 ↩
23. Jeremiah 52:12 Lit stood before the king ↩
24. Jeremiah 52:13 1 Kin 9:8; 2 Kin 25:9; 2 Chr 36:19; Ps 74:6-8; 79:1; Is 64:10, 11; Lam 2:7; Mic 3:12 ↩
25. Jeremiah 52:13 Jer 39:8 ↩
26. Jeremiah 52:14 2 Kin 25:10; Neh 1:3 ↩
27. Jeremiah 52:15 2 Kin 25:11 ↩
28. Jeremiah 52:15 Lit fallers who had fallen ↩
29. Jeremiah 52:15 Jer 39:9 ↩
30. Jeremiah 52:16 2 Kin 25:12; Jer 39:10; 40:2-6 ↩
31. Jeremiah 52:16 Or unpaid laborers ↩

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