1E aconteceu aos nove anos de seu reinado, no mês décimo, aos dez do mês, que Nabucodonosor rei da Babilônia veio com todo seu exército contra Jerusalém, e cercou-a; e levantaram contra ela rampas de cerco ao redor. 2E esteve a cidade cercado até o décimo primeiro ano do rei Zedequias. 3Aos nove do mês prevaleceu a fome na cidade, que não houve pão para o povo da terra. 4Aberta já a cidade, fugiram de noite todos os homens de guerra pelo caminho da porta que estava entre os dois muros, junto aos jardins do rei, estando os caldeus ao redor da cidade; e o rei se foi caminho da campina. 5E o exército dos caldeus seguiu o rei, e tomou-o nas planícies de Jericó, e todo o seu exército se dispersou dele. 6Tomado, pois, o rei, trouxeram-no ao rei da Babilônia a Ribla, e proferiram contra ele sentença. 7E degolaram aos filhos de Zedequias em sua presença; e a Zedequias tiraram os olhos, e acorrentado com correntes levaram-no à Babilônia. 8No mês quinto, aos sete do mês, sendo o ano dezenove de Nabucodonosor rei da Babilônia, veio a Jerusalém Nebuzaradã, capitão dos da guarda, servo do rei da Babilônia. 9E queimou a casa do SENHOR, e a casa do rei, e todas as casas de Jerusalém; e todas as casas dos príncipes queimou a fogo. 10E todo o exército dos caldeus que estava com o capitão da guarda, derrubou os muros de Jerusalém ao redor. 11E aos do povo que haviam restado na cidade, e aos que se haviam juntado ao rei da Babilônia, e aos que haviam restado da população, transportou-o Nebuzaradã, capitão dos da guarda. 12Mas dos pobres da terra deixou Nebuzaradã, capitão dos da guarda, para que lavrassem as vinhas e as terras. 13E quebraram os caldeus as colunas de bronze que estavam na casa do SENHOR, e as bases, e o mar de bronze que estava na casa do SENHOR, e levaram o bronze disso à Babilônia. 14Levaram-se também as caldeiras, e as pás, e as tenazes, e as colheres, e todos os vasos de bronze com que ministravam. 15Incensários, bacias, os que de ouro, em ouro, e os que de prata, em prata, tudo o levou o capitão dos da guarda; 16As duas colunas, um mar, e as bases que Salomão havia feito para a casa do SENHOR: não havia peso de todos estes vasos. 17A altura da uma coluna era dezoito côvados e tinha encima um capitel de bronze, e a altura do capitel era de três côvados; e sobre o capitel havia um enredado e romãs ao redor, todo de bronze: e semelhante obra havia na outra coluna com o enredado. 18Tomou então o capitão dos da guarda a Seraías o sacerdote principal, e a Sofonias o segundo sacerdote, e três guardas da porta; 19E da cidade tomou um eunuco, o qual comandava os soldados, e cinco homens dos assistentes do rei, que se acharam na cidade; e ao principal escriba do exército, que fazia o registro da gente do país; e sessenta homens do povo da terra, 20Estes tomou Nebuzaradã, capitão dos da guarda, e levou-os a Ribla ao rei da Babilônia. 21E o rei da Babilônia os feriu e matou em Ribla, em terra de Hamate. Assim foi transportado Judá de sobre sua terra. 22E ao povo que Nabucodonosor rei da Babilônia deixou em terra de Judá, pôs por governador a Gedalias, filho de Aicã filho de Safã. 23E ouvindo todos os príncipes do exército, eles e sua gente, que o rei da Babilônia havia posto por governador a Gedalias, vieram-se a ele em Mispá, a saber, Ismael filho de Netanias, e Joanã filho de Careá, e Seraías filho de Tanumete netofatita, e Jazanias filho do maacatita, eles com os seus subordinados. 24Então Gedalias lhes fez juramento, a eles e aos seus subordinados, e disse-lhes: Não temais de ser servos dos caldeus; habitai na terra, e servi ao rei da Babilônia, e vos irá bem. 25Mas no mês sétimo veio Ismael filho de Netanias, filho de Elisama, da família real, e com ele dez homens, e feriram a Gedalias, e morreu, assim como os judeus e os caldeus que estavam com ele em Mispá. 26E levantando-se todo o povo, desde o menor até o maior, com os capitães do exército, foram-se ao Egito por temor dos caldeus. 27E aconteceu aos trinta e sete anos do cativeiro de Joaquim rei de Judá, no décimo segundo mês, aos vinte e sete do mês, que Evil-Merodaque rei da Babilônia, no primeiro ano de seu reinado, concedeu favor a Joaquim rei de Judá, tirando-o da prisão. 28E falou-lhe bem, e pôs seu assento em posição de maior honra do que o assento dos reis que estavam com ele na Babilônia. 29E mudou-lhe as roupas de sua prisão, e comeu sempre diante dele todos os dias de sua vida. 30E foi-lhe continuamente dada a sua subsistência diária da parte do rei, por todos os dias de sua vida.
1In 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 around it. 2So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled 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 around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah. 5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 6Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him. 7They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem. 9He burnt Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire. 10All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. 11Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. 12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields. 13The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon. 14They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered. 15The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver. 16The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network. 18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: 19and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, 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 city. 20Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 21The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. 22As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. 23Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 24Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.” 25But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. 26All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. 27In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 28and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 29and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: 30and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
1En het geschiedde in het negende jaar zijner regering, in de tiende maand, op den tienden der maand, dat Nebukadnezar, de koning van Babel, kwam tegen Jeruzalem, hij en zijn ganse heir, en legerde zich tegen haar; en zij bouwden tegen haar sterkten rondom. 2Zo kwam de stad in belegering, tot in het elfde jaar van den koning Zedekia. 3Op den negenden der vierde maand, als de honger in de stad sterk werd, en het volk des lands geen brood had, 4Toen werd de stad doorgebroken, en al de krijgslieden vloden des nachts door den weg der poort, tussen de twee muren, die aan des konings hof waren (de Chaldeen nu waren tegen de stad rondom), en de koning trok door den weg des vlakken velds. 5Doch het heir der Chaldeen jaagde den koning na, en zij achterhaalden hem in de vlakke velden van Jericho, en zal zijn heir werd van bij hem verstrooid. 6Zij dan grepen den koning, en voerden hem opwaarts tot den koning van Babel, naar Ribla; en zij spraken een oordeel tegen hem. 7En zij slachtten de zonen van Zedekia voor zijn ogen, en men verblindde Zedekia's ogen, en zij bonden hem met twee koperen ketenen, en voerden hem naar Babel. 8Daarna in de vijfde maand, op de zevenden der maand (dit was het negentiende jaar van Nebukadnezar, den koning van Babel) kwam Nebuzaradan, de overste der trawanten, de knecht des konings van Babel, te Jeruzalem. 9En hij verbrandde het huis des HEEREN, en het huis des konings, mitsgaders alle huizen van Jeruzalem; en alle huizen der groten verbrandde hij met vuur. 10En het ganse heir de Chaldeen, dat met den overste der trawanten was, brak de muren van Jeruzalem rondom af. 11Het overige nu des volks, die in de stad overgelaten waren, en de afvalligen, die tot den koning van Babel gevallen waren, en het overige der menigte, voerde Nebuzaradan, de overste der trawanten, gevankelijk weg. 12Maar van de armsten des lands liet de overste der trawanten enigen overig tot wijngaardeniers en tot akkerlieden. 13Verder braken de Chaldeen de koperen pilaren, die in het huis des HEEREN waren, en de stellingen, en de koperen zee, die in het huis des HEEREN was; en zij voerden het koper daarvan naar Babel. 14Zij namen ook de potten, en de schoffelen, en de gaffelen, en de rookschalen, en al de koperen vaten, daar men den dienst mede deed. 15En de overste der trawanten nam weg de wierookvaten en de sprengbekkens, wat geheel goud en wat geheel zilver was. 16De twee pilaren, de ene zee, en de stellingen, die Salomo voor het huis des HEEREN gemaakt had; het koper van al deze vaten was zonder gewicht. 17De hoogte van een pilaar was achttien ellen, en het kapiteel daarop was koper; en de hoogte des kapiteels was drie ellen; en het net, en de granaatappelen op het kapiteel rondom, waren alle van koper; en dezen gelijk had de andere pilaar, met het net. 18Ook nam de overste der trawanten Seraja, den hoofdpriester, en Zefanja, den tweeden priester, en de drie dorpelbewaarders. 19En uit de stad nam hij een hoveling, die over de krijgslieden gesteld was, en vijf mannen uit degenen, die des konings aangezicht zagen, die in de stad gevonden werden, mitsgaders den oversten schrijver des heirs, die het volk des lands ten oorlog opschreef, en zestig mannen van het volk des lands, die in de stad gevonden werden. 20Als Nebuzaradan, de overste der trawanten, dezen genomen had, zo bracht hij hen tot den koning van Babel, naar Ribla. 21En de koning van Babel sloeg hen, en doodde hen te Ribla, in het land van Hamath. Alzo werd Juda uit zijn land gevankelijk weggevoerd. 22Maar aangaande het volk, dat in het land van Juda overgebleven was, dat Nebukadnezar, de koning van Babel, had laten overblijven, daarover stelde hij Gedalia, den zoon van Ahikam, den zoon van Safan. 23Toen nu al de oversten der heiren, zij en hun mannen, hoorden, dat de koning van Babel Gedalia tot overste gesteld had, kwamen zij tot Gedalia naar Mizpa; namelijk, Ismael, de zoon van Nethanja, en Johanan, de zoon van Kareah, en Seraja, de zoon van Tanhumeth, de Netofathiet, en Jaazanja, de zoon van den Maachathiet, zij en hun mannen. 24En Gedalia zwoer hun en hun mannen, en zeide tot hen: Vreest niet van te zijn knechten der Chaldeen, blijft in het land, en dient den koning van Babel, zo zal het u wel gaan. 25Maar het geschiedde in de zevende maand, dat Ismael, de zoon van Nethanja, den zoon van Elisama, van koninklijk zaad, kwam, en tien mannen met hem; en zij sloegen Gedalia, dat hij stierf; mitsgaders de Joden en de Chaldeen, die met hem te Mizpa waren. 26Toen maakte zich al het volk op, van de minste tot den meeste, en de oversten der heiren, en kwamen in Egypte; want zij vreesden voor de Chaldeen. 27Het geschiedde daarna in het zeven en dertigste jaar der wegvoering van Jojachin, den koning van Juda, in de twaalfde maand, op den zeven en twintigsten der maand, dat Evilmerodach, de koning van Babel, in het jaar, als hij koning werd, het hoofd van Jojachin, den koning van Juda, uit het gevangenhuis, verhief. 28En hij sprak vriendelijk met hem, en stelde zijn stoel boven den stoel der koningen, die bij hem te Babel waren. 29En hij veranderde de klederen zijner gevangenis, en hij at geduriglijk brood voor zijn aangezicht, al de dagen zijns levens. 30En aangaande zijn tering, een gedurige tering werd hem van den koning gegeven, elk dagelijks bestemde deel op zijn dag, al de dagen zijns levens.
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