21. Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference; each was four fingers thick, and hollow.
22. The bronze capital on the top of one pillar was five cubits high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
23. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the surrounding network was a hundred.
24. The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.
25. Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.
26. Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
28. This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29. in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,832 people from Jerusalem;
30. in his twenty-third year,745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.There were 4,600 people in all.
31. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.
32. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honour higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
33. So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.
34. Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.Footnotes for the Book of Jeremiaha 10 In the Syro-Arabian desertb 18 Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nilea 9 Or and swear by false godsa In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.b 3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truthc 4 Or a deceiving Jacobd 6 That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)e 26 Or wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheadsa 15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoicea 4 Or possibly to the Euphrates; similarly in verses 5-7b 23 Hebrew Cushite (probably a person from the upper Nile region)a 14 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts I will cause your enemies to bring you / intoa 14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.a 7 Or persuadeda 11 Also called Jehoahazb 23 That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)c 24 Hebrew Koniah, a variant of Jehoiachin; also in verse 28d 25 Or Chaldeansa 1 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachinb 5 Or Chaldeansc 9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.a 6 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.b 18 Micah 3:12a 14 Or will restore your fortunesb 18 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see verse 22); or, others will see that they are cursed.a 3 Or Lord has appeared to us from afarb 22 Or will protectc 23 Or I restore their fortunesd 32 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac covenant, / and I turned away frome 32 Or was their mastera 5 Or Chaldeansb 7 Or will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israelc 16 Or hed 24 Or familiese 26 Or will bring them back from captivitya 6 Hebrew Jonadab, a variant of Jehonadab; here and often in this chapterb 11 Or Chaldeana 1 Hebrew Jukal, a variant of Jehukalb 2 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 18, 19 and 23c 7 Probably from the upper Nile regiond 7 Or a eunuche 23 Or and you will cause this city toa 5 Or Jeremiah answeredb 8 Hebrew Jezaniah, a variant of Jaazaniahc 9 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 10a 1 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also 43:2) Azariahb 18 That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.a 8 That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed; also in verse 12; similarly in verse 22.a 4 That is, Cretea 1 Or their king; also in verse 3b 13 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.c 21 Or the Sea of Reedsd 23 Hebrew on or bye 32 Or who clip the hair by their foreheadsa 1 Leb Kamai is a cryptogram for Chaldea, that is, Babylonia.b 3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.c 4 Or Chaldead 5 Or Almighty, / and the land of the Babylonianse 24 Or Chaldea; also in verse 35f 35 Or done to us and to our childreng 41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.h 54 Or Chaldeans