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Jeremiah 52:19-29 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

19. And the captain of the guard took the bowls, and the firepans, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the pans, and the libation bowls, those made of solid gold and those made of solid silver.

20. The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh—there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels!

21. Now the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollowed out.

22. And a capital upon it was bronze and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital on all sides, all of bronze. And like these was the second pillar with pomegranates.

23. And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides were a hundred.

24. Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and three keepers of the threshold.

25. And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over the soldiers, and seven men of the king’s advisors who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

26. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

27. And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land.

28. This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans;

29. in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two persons from Jerusalem;

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