These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 25
Tanakh 30 verses
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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that of came, he and all his army, against , and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
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- 2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of Zedekiah.
- 3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
- 4 Then 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 round about—and the went by the way of the Arabah.
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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the , and overtook him in the plains of ; and all his army was scattered from him.
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- 6 Then they took the , and carried him up unto the of to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
- 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to .
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Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of , of , came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a of the of , unto .
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- 9 And he burnt the house of , and the king’s house; and all the houses of , even every great man’s house, burnt he with fire.
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And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of round about.
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And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the of , and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
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But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
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- 13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of , and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of , did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to .
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And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the pans, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
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And the fire-pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
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The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which had made for the house of ; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
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The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three cubits; with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass; and like unto these had the second pillar with network.
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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief , and the second , and the three keepers of the door;
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and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and five men of them that saw the king’s , who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the city.
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And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the of to Riblah.
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- 21 And the of smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So was carried away captive out of his land.
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And as for the people that were left in the land of , whom of had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
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Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the of had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even 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.
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And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said unto them: ‘Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and the of , and it shall be well with you.’
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But it came to pass in the seventh month, that the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
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And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to ; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin of , in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach of , in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin of out of prison.
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And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in .
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And he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life.
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And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the , every day a portion, all the days of his life.
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