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Day 200 and 42
zedekiah was 21 years old when he became King, and he
reigned in Jerusalem 11 years.
His mother was, he Mutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Lyna, but Zetia did
what was evil in the Lord's sight.
Just as Jehoiakim had done, these things happened because of the Lord's anger
against the people of Jerusalem and Judah.
Until he finally banished them from his presence and sent them
into exile, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
So on January 15th, during the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign,
king Nebu NR of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem.
They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.
Jerusalem was kept under siege until the 11th year of Kings ETA's reign.
On July 18th, in the 11th year of Zeta Chi's Rain, the famine in the
city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.
Then a section of the city wall was broken down.
Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians, the soldiers
waited for nightfall and escaped through the gate between the two
walls behind the King's Garden.
Then they headed toward the Jordan Valley.
But the Babylonian troops chased the king and overtook him on the plains of Jericho.
For his men had all deserted him and scattered.
They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Rla, where
they pronounced judgment upon Zakiah.
They made Zeta chia watch as they slaughtered his sons.
Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains,
and led him away to Babylon.
On August 14th of that year, which was the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar's
reign, NEBA Zer Raiden, the captain of the Guard and an official of the
Babylonian king, arrived in Jerusalem.
He burned down the temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and
all the houses of Jerusalem.
He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.
Then he supervised the entire Babylonian army as they tore down
the walls of Jerusalem on every side.
Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took as exiles the rest of
the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had declared their
allegiance to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
But the captain of the guard allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind.
To care for the vineyards and fields.
The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars in front of the Lord's temple,
the bronze water carts and the great bronze basin called the sea, and they
carried all the bronze away to Babylon.
They also took all the ash buckets, shovels, lamp, snuffers, ladles, and
all the other bronze articles used for making sacrifices at the temple.
The captain of the guard also took the incense, burners, and
basins, and all the other articles made of pure gold or silver.
The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the sea and the water
carts was too great to be measured.
These things had been made for the Lord's temple in the days of Solomon.
Each of the pillars was 27 feet tall.
The bronze capital on top of each pillar was seven and a half feet high,
and was decorated with a network of bronze pomegranates all the way around.
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard took with him as prisoners,
Serayah, the high priest, Zephaniah, the priest of the second rank
and the three chief gatekeepers.
And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who
had been in charge of the Judean army.
Five of the King's personal advisors, the Army commander's chief secretary,
who was in charge of recruitment and 60 other citizens, NEBA Zaden, the
captain of the guard, took them all to the king of Babylon at Rla, and there
at RLA in the land of Hamoth, the king of Babylon had them all put to death.
So the people of Judah were sent into exile from their land.
Then King Nebu NR appointed Galella, son of a Hakum, the grandson of Shahan
as governor over the people he had left in Judah when all the Army commanders
and their men learned that the King of Babylon had appointed Galella as governor.
They went to see him at mpa.
These included Ishmael, son of Niah, Johannan son of Korea, reha son of
Tan Heith, the Neite Zeniah son of the Meite, and all their men get Alaya
vowed to them that the Babylonian officials meant them no harm.
Don't be afraid of them.
Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon and all will go well for you.
He promised.
But in mid-autumn of that year, Ishmael son of Naiah and grandson of Ishma,
who was a member of the royal family, went to MPA with 10 men and killed gal.
He also killed all the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at mpa.
Then all the people of Judah from the least to the greatest, as well as the
army commanders fled in panic to Egypt.
For, they were afraid of what the Babylonians would do to them.
In the 37th year of the exile of King Jo Joaquin of Judah evil, Medak ascended
to the Babylonian throne, he was kind to Jo Joaquin and released him from prison.
On April 2nd of that year, he spoke kindly to Jo Joaquin and
gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings in Babylon.
He supplied Jo Jolla kin with new clothes to replace his prison garb
and allowed him to dine in the King's presence for the rest of his life.
So the king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived.
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