12. But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
13. And the Chaldees broke in pieces the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord and the bases and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14. They also took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the spoons and all the vessels of brass, with which they ministered.
15. And the censers and the bowls and such things as were of gold in gold and of silver in silver the captain of the guard took away, also
16. the two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass; and the height of the chapiter three cubits, and network and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass; and the second pillar was like the first with network.
18. And the captain of the guard took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the door;
19. and out of the city he took a eunuch, that was set over the men of war, and five men of those that were in the king’s presence, who were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, with sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.
20. Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
21. And the king of Babylon smote and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
22. And as for the people whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, left in the land of Judah, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor over them.
23. And when all the captains of the armies, 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 Careah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth, the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of Maachathi, they and their men.
24. Then Gedaliah swore to them and to their men and said unto them, Do not fear the slaves of the Chaldees; dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
25. But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama of the royal seed, came and ten men with him and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
26. Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
27. And it came to pass after thirty-seven years of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of the prison house;
28. and he spoke kindly to him and set his seat above the seats of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
29. And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.
30. And the king caused him to be given his food continually, each thing in its time, all the days of his life.