YirmYâ ́huw (Jeremiah) 52

Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár's capture of Yruwshâláim

1. TsithqiyYâ ́huw was a son of twenty one years when he became king and he reigned eleven years in Yruwshâláim, and the name of his mother was Chamyyţál, daughter of YirmYâ ́huw from Livnâ ́h; 2. () 3. () 4. And it happened in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month during the tenth of the month, Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél, he and all of his forces invaded against Yruwshâláim, and they (encamped against it), and they made a rampart around it, and they built siege-walls surrounding against her with large stones; 5. So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of king TsithqiyYâ ́huw. 6. During the fourth month on the ninth of the month, then the famine was grievous in the city and there did not exist food for the people of the Land, 7. And the city was broken into, and all of the mortal men of battle, they departed at night the way of the gate between the walls and the outworks which are over the garden of the king, though the Kasdíym were against the city surrounding it, and they went the way to the desert plain; 8. And the forces of the Kasdíym pursued after the king and they were able to secure TsithqiyYâ ́huw in the plains of Yriychów and all of his forces were dispersed from with him, 9. So they arrested the king and they brought him up to the king of Bâvél at Rivlâ ́h (Fruitful) in the land of Chamâ ́th (Fortress), and he dictated judgments on him. 10. Then the king of Bâvél slaughtered the sons of TsithqiyYâ ́huw before his eyes and he also slaughtered all of the officials of Yâhuwthâ ́h in Rivlâ ́h, 11. Then he put out the eyes of TsithqiyYâ ́huw and he bound him in bronze fetters and the king of Bâvél brought him into Bâvél, and he put him in the penal house until the day of his death. 12. During the fifth month on the tenth of the month, it was the nineteenth year of the king, Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél, Nvuwzar’athâ ́n the chief of the guardsmen who served before the king of Bâvél came into Yruwshâláim, 13. And he burned the house of Yâ-hwéh, and the house of the king, and all of the houses of Yruwshâláim, and every large house he burned with fire; 14. And all of the forces of the Kasdíym which were with the chief of the guardsmen tore down all of the walls surrounding Yruwshâláim, 15. () 16. But the chief of the guardsmen left a remnant of the people for vinedressers and tillers. 17. And the Kasdíym broke in pieces the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of Yâ-hwéh and the pedestals and the bronze basin "Sea" which was in the house of Yâ-hwéh, and they carried all their bronze into Bâvél; 18. And they took away the pots and the shovels and the trimming-shears and the basins and the vessels and all of the bronze utensils with which they menially attended, 19. But the chief of the guardsmen took away the bowls and the censers and the sprinkling bowls and the pots and the lampstands and the vessels and the bowls for drink offerings which were pure gold, or which were pure silver. 20. The two pillars, the one basin "Sea", and the twelve bronze bulls under the pedestal, each of these articles which the king Shlómoh had made for the house of Yâ-hwéh, were not [able to be] weighed for their bronze. 21. But the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits [(1 cubit = ~11⁄2 feet, ~0.5m) ~27 feet or 9 m], and the measuring-line going around it was twelve cubits [~18 feet or 6 m] and its thickness four fingers [3 inches or 7.62 cm], being hollow. 22. And the capital above each [pillar] was bronze and the height of the capital was five cubits [~7 1⁄2 feet or 2.5 m]; and upon the capital surrounding it was a latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, and the second pillar had it like these and pomegranates; 23. And there were ninety six pomegranates on the sides; but all of the pomegranates were a hundred on the surrounding latticework. 24. And the chief of the guardsmen took away (SrâYâ ́huw,) the head priest, and (TsphanYâ ́hu,) the second priest in order, and the (three) guards of the doorsill; 25. And one official who was the overseer over the mortal men of battle and seven mortal men who [had served] in the presence of the king which were found in the city, and the chief scribe of the conscription of the people of the Land, and sixty men from the people of the Land who were found inside the city, 26. And Nvuwzar’athâ ́n the chief of the guardsmen took them and he brought them to the king of Bâvél at Rivlâ ́h (Fruitful). 27. And the king of Bâvél had them slain () in Rivlâ ́h (Fruitful) in the land of Chamâ ́th (). 28. () 29. () 30. ()

Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár's successor was kinder to Yâhuwyâkhíyn

1. And it happened during the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Yâhuwyâkhíyn the king of Yâhuwthâ ́h during the twelfth month on the twenty fifth of the month, Amel-Marthúk119 the king of Bâvél, during the year of his becoming king, raised the head of Yâhuwyâkhíyn the king of Yâhuwthâ ́h and he caused him to depart from the house of imprisonment, 32. And he spoke pleasant things to him and he put his throne higher than the thrones of the other kings which were with him in Bâvél, 33. And he changed his prison clothes and he ate bread before him continually all of the days of his life; 34. And his appointed portion was given to him continually by the king of Bâvél, day by day until the day of his death.

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