19. They took away everything that was made of gold or silver: the small bowls, the pans used for carrying live coals, the bowls for holding the blood from the sacrifices, the ash containers, the lampstands, the bowls used for incense, and the bowls used for pouring out offerings of wine.
20. The bronze objects that King Solomon had made for the Temple — the two columns, the carts, the large tank, and the twelve bulls that supported it — were too heavy to weigh.
21-22. The two columns were identical: each one was eight metres high and 5.3 metres round. They were hollow, and the metal was 75 millimetres thick. On top of each column was a bronze capital 2.2 metres high, and all round it was a grating decorated with pomegranates, all of which was also made of bronze.
23. On the grating of each column there were a hundred pomegranates in all, and 96 of these were visible from the ground.
24. In addition, Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners Seraiah the High Priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three other important temple officials.
25. From the city he took the officer who had been in command of the troops, seven of the king's personal advisers who were still in the city, the commander's assistant, who was in charge of military records, and sixty other important men.
26. Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah
27. in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death.So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.
28. This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;
29. in his eighteenth year, 832 from Jerusalem;
30. and in his 23rd year, 745 — taken away by Nebuzaradan. In all, 4,600 people were taken away.
31. In the year that Evilmerodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the 25th day of the twelfth month of the 37th year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as a prisoner.
32. Evilmerodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honour than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.
33. So Jehoiachin was permitted to change from his prison clothes and to dine at the king's table for the rest of his life.
34. Each day for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.