Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 547

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Hamath, and he dictated conditions dered the children of Zedekiah before sented the king of Babel in ]erusa1em, every palace of the great, he consumed the walls surrounding ]erusalem. Then Nebuzaradon, the Com- to him. Then the king of Babel mur- his eyes, and also murdered all the nobles of judah in Riblath. He afterwards dug out the eyesvof Zede- kiah, and loaded him with chains, and they took him with the king of Babel to Babel, and put him into the Convicts Prison until the time of his death. But on the tenth ef the fifth month,

in the twelfth year of King Nebukhad— nezzar, king of Babel, Nebuzaradon, Commander of the Guards, repre· and burnt the House of the EVER- L1v1NG, and the Royal Palace, and all the houses of jerusalem, and with fire. And all the army of the Kasdim who were with the Com- mander of the Guards, threw down 52—·27 ]EREMIAH. I0 IX I2 eleven years in jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of jeremiah of Libnah. But he did wrong in the eyes ofthe EvER·LivxNG, in every way that jhoiakim had done; for it came from the anger of the LORD against jerusalem and judah, to make them fling themselves from His presence, and Zedekiah to the king of Babel. S0 it arrived in the ninth year

of his reign, in the tenth day of the tenth month, that King Nebukhad· nezzar, king of Babel, came with all his forces to jerusalem, and en- camped against it, and built an embankment around, and continued the siege till the eleventh year of Zedekiah, to the ninth of the fourth month, when a famine seized the city, and there was no bread for the people of the country. Then abreach was made from the city, and all the soldiers fied, and left the town by night by way of a gate in the walls which were opposite the Royal Garden, and the Kasdim who sur- rounded the city, and they marched towards the Black Desert. The army of the Kasdim, however, followed after the king, and overtook Zede- kiah in the Black Desert near jerico, when all the army deserted him. They consequently seized the king, and brought him to the king of Babel at Riblath, in the district: of the lowest ofthe people, and the rest of the populace left in the city, and mander of the Guards, transported the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babel, and the remainder 16 of the mechanics. However, Nebu- zaradon, Commander of the Guards left the lower classes of the country to be vine dressers and plough· men. The Pillars of brass that were

before the House of the EVER-LLVING, however, and the pedestals, and the Brazen Sea that was in the House of the Even-uvmo, the Kasdim broke up, and carried the brass to Babel; with the boilers, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and basins, and spoons, and all the instruments of brass they used in the services were taken away. The Commander of the Guards also took away the cups, and tire pans, and basins, and pots, with the candlesticks, and spoons and bowls; what was of gold as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. The two pillars; the Single Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under the pedestals that King Solo- mon had made for the House of the EvER·L1v1NG. The bronze of all this furniture was not weighed. The height of the pillars was

eighteen cubits for the first pillar, and its circumference was twelve cubits. It was hollow and four inches thick. It had upon it a capital of bronze. The height of that capital was five cubits, with a network of pomegranates around the capital, all bronze; The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates. There were ninety—six pomegranates to- 18 20 21 22 wards the winds--all the pome- granates upon the surrounding network were a hundred. The Commander of the Guards 24 also took Seriah the Chief Priest, and Zephaniah the Second Priest, and the three Guardians of the Threshold. From the city he also took an oiiicer 25 who was adjutant of the soldiery; and seven officers of the Privy Council, whom he found in the city, and the Chief Secretary of the Com- mander in Chief of the native army, and sixty nobles from the country people, whom he found amongst the townsmen. Nebuzaradon, Com- 26 mander of the Guards, took these and conducted them to the king of Babel at Riblath, when the king of 27 Babel assailed and put themto death 547