Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2Ki 24:18Jos 10:292Ch 36:112Ki 8:22Jos 15:42 He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 1Ki 14:222Ki 24:19-20Ezk 17:16-20Ezk 21:25Jer 26:21-23Jer 36:21-23Jer 36:29-312Ch 36:12-13 For through the LORD’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. 2Ch 36:13Isa 3:1Isa 3:4-51Ki 10:92Sa 24:1Ecc 10:16Ezk 17:12-21Isa 19:4
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. Jer 39:1Ezk 24:1-2Zec 8:19Jer 32:24Jer 52:72Ki 25:1-27Deu 28:52-57Ezk 21:22 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. Isa 3:1Jer 39:22Ki 25:3Jer 38:9Deu 28:52-53Deu 32:24Ezk 14:21Ezk 4:9-17 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah, 2Ki 25:4Jer 39:4-7Jer 51:32Deu 28:25Deu 32:30Jer 34:2-3Jer 49:26Jos 7:8-12 but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. Jer 34:21Jer 21:7Jer 32:4Jer 38:23Amo 2:14-15Amo 9:1-4Ezk 12:12-14Ezk 17:20-21 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him. Jer 39:5Num 13:212Ki 25:6Jos 13:51Ki 8:652Ch 33:112Ch 8:32Ki 23:33 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. Jer 22:302Ki 25:72Ki 25:18-21Deu 28:34Ezk 11:7-11Gen 21:16Gen 44:34Jer 39:6-7 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death. Ezk 12:13Jer 34:3-5
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem. 2Ki 25:8Jer 39:9Jer 52:29Zec 8:192Ki 24:12Gen 37:36Jer 52:14Zec 7:3-5 He burned the LORD’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. 2Ch 36:19Mic 3:12Psa 79:12Ki 25:9Amo 2:5Amo 3:10-11Amo 6:11Isa 64:10-11 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. Neh 1:32Ki 25:10 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. Jer 15:1-2Zec 14:2 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers. 2Ki 25:12Jer 39:9-10Jer 40:5-7Ezk 33:24
The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the LORD’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the LORD’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon. Jer 27:19-222Ch 4:12-15Jer 52:21-231Ki 7:15-371Ki 7:502Ch 36:182Ki 25:13-17Dan 1:2 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered. 1Ki 7:45Exo 27:3Num 4:141Ki 7:401Ch 28:171Ki 7:502Ch 4:112Ch 4:16 The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, as gold, and that which was of silver, as silver. 1Ki 7:49-502Ch 4:6-222Ki 25:15Exo 25:31-39Lev 26:12Num 16:46Rev 8:3-5
They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which King Solomon had made for the LORD’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight. 1Ki 7:472Ki 25:161Ch 22:142Ch 4:18 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; 1 and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow. 2Ki 25:171Ki 7:15-212Ch 3:15-17 A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, 2 with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. The second pillar also had the same, with pomegranates. 1Ki 7:16-172Ch 3:152Ch 4:12-132Ki 25:17Exo 28:14-22Exo 28:25Exo 39:15-18 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around. 1Ki 7:20
The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold, 2Ki 25:181Ch 6:14Jer 21:1Jer 29:25Jer 35:4Jer 37:3Ezr 7:1Jer 29:29 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city. 2Ki 25:19Est 1:14Mat 18:10 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Ezk 33:28Ezk 8:11-18Isa 27:10Isa 32:13-14Isa 6:11-12Jer 25:9-11Mic 4:102Ki 17:20
So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: 2Ki 24:12-162Ki 24:2-3Dan 1:1-32Ch 36:20
in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons; Gen 12:5Jer 52:122Ch 36:202Ki 25:11Exo 1:5Jer 39:9
in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people. Jer 52:15Jer 6:9
All the people numbered four thousand six hundred.
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison. 2Ki 25:27-30Psa 3:3Gen 40:13Pro 21:1Psa 27:6Gen 40:20Job 22:29 He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, Pro 12:25Dan 2:37Dan 5:18-19Jer 27:6-11 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. 2Sa 9:71Ki 2:72Sa 9:13Gen 41:14Gen 41:42Isa 61:1-3Psa 30:11Zec 3:4 For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. 2Sa 9:10Luk 11:3Mat 6:11