21. Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet high, eighteen feet around, and hollow inside. The wall of each pillar was three inches thick.
22. The bronze capital on top of the one pillar was about seven and one-half feet high. It was decorated with a net design and bronze pomegranates all around it. The other pillar also had pomegranates and was like the first pillar.
23. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides of the pillars. There was a total of a hundred pomegranates above the net design.
24. The commander of the king’s special guards took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three doorkeepers.
25. He also took from the city the officer in charge of the soldiers, seven people who advised the king, the royal secretary who selected people for the army, and sixty other men from Judah who were in the city when it fell.
26. Nebuzaradan, the commander, took these people and brought them to the king of Babylon at the town of Riblah.
27. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them killed.So the people of Judah were led away from their country as captives.