Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, led into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, those deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the remaining artisans. However, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left behind some of the poorest people of the land to serve as vinedressers and farmers.
The Chaldeans broke up into pieces the pillars of bronze that were in the house of THE LORD, and the wheeled stand and the bronze sea that were in the house of THE LORD, and they carried away all the bronze to Babylon. They removed the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the ladles, and all the bronze vessels used in worship.
The captain of the guard also took away the small bowls, the censers, the sprinkling bowls, the ash containers, the lampstands, the goblets, and the saucers--everything that was made of gold or of silver.
The bronze of the two pillars, of the one sea, and of the twelve oxen under the sea, and the wheeled stands that King Solomon had ordered to be made for the house of THE LORD, encompassed more than could be weighed. Each of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, and the circumference of each was twelve cubits; although it was hollow inside, its thickness was four fingers. Upon it was a capital of bronze. The height of each capital was five cubits, encircled at the top of the capital with latticework and bronze pomegranates. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, with one hundred pomegranates encircling the latticework .
The captain of the guard took as prisoners the chief priest Seraiah, Zephaniah, who was the next highest in rank, and the three guardians of the threshold. He also took from the city an officer who had been in command of the soldiers, seven members of the king's council who were discovered in the city, the secretary of the army commander who mustered the people of the land, and sixty of the common people who had not departed from the city.
Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, arrested these men and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon ordered them to be executed. Thus Judah went into captivity after being deported from its own land.
This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar led away into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Judeans; in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two people were deported from Jerusalem; in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took into exile seven hundred and forty-five Judeans. Thus there was a total of four thousand six hundred persons.
JEREMIAH: CHAPTER 52, VERSES 12 - 30
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