Jeremiah 52

1 son: aged twenty and one year Zedekiah in/on/with to reign he and one ten year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem and name mother his (Hamutal *QK) daughter Jeremiah from Libnah

Zedekiah was twenty-one when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah She came from Libnah.

2 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD like/as all which to make: do Jehoiakim

He did evil in the Lord's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.

3 for upon face: anger LORD to be in/on/with Jerusalem and Judah till to throw he [obj] them from upon face his and to rebel Zedekiah in/on/with king Babylon

All this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, because of the Lord's anger, until he eventually banished them from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 and to be in/on/with year [the] ninth to/for to reign him in/on/with month [the] tenth in/on/with ten to/for month to come (in): come Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon he/she/it and all strength: soldiers his upon Jerusalem and to camp upon her and to build upon her siegework around

In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. He set up camp around the city and built siege ramps against the walls.

5 and to come (in): besiege [the] city in/on/with siege till eleven ten year to/for king Zedekiah

The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

6 in/on/with month [the] fourth in/on/with nine to/for month and to strengthen: strengthen [the] famine in/on/with city and not to be food to/for people [the] land: country/planet

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat.

7 and to break up/open [the] city and all human [the] battle to flee and to come out: come from [the] city night way: direction gate between [the] wall which upon garden [the] king and Chaldea upon [the] city around and to go: went way: direction [the] Arabah

Then the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers ran away, escaping at night through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, even though the Babylonians had the city surrounded. They went in the direction of the Arabah,

8 and to pursue strength: soldiers Chaldea after [the] king and to overtake [obj] Zedekiah in/on/with plain Jericho and all strength: soldiers his to scatter from upon him

but the Babylonian army chased after the king and caught up with him on the plains of Jericho. His whole army had scattered and left him.

9 and to capture [obj] [the] king and to ascend: rise [obj] him to(wards) king Babylon Riblah [to] in/on/with land: country/planet Hamath and to speak: promise with him justice: judgement

They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he sentenced him.

10 and to slaughter king Babylon [obj] son: child Zedekiah to/for eye his and also [obj] all ruler Judah to slaughter in/on/with Riblah [to]

The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons while he watched, and also killed the officials of Judah there at Riblah.

11 and [obj] eye Zedekiah to blind and to bind him in/on/with bronze and to come (in): bring him king Babylon Babylon [to] and to give: put him (house: home *QK) [the] punishment till day death his

Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him to Babylon and imprisoned him there until the day he died.

12 and in/on/with month [the] fifth in/on/with ten to/for month he/she/it year nine ten year to/for king Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon to come (in): come Nebuzaradan chief guard to stand: appoint to/for face: before king Babylon in/on/with Jerusalem

On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, an officer of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

13 and to burn [obj] house: temple LORD and [obj] house: home [the] king and [obj] all house: home Jerusalem and [obj] all house: home [the] great: large to burn in/on/with fire

He burned down the Lord's Temple, the royal palace, and all the large buildings of Jerusalem.

14 and [obj] all wall Jerusalem around to tear all strength: soldiers Chaldea which with chief guard

The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the guard knocked down all the walls around Jerusalem.

15 and from poor [the] people and [obj] remainder [the] people [the] to remain in/on/with city and [obj] [the] to fall: deserting which to fall: deserting to(wards) king Babylon and [obj] remainder [the] artisan to reveal: remove Nebuzaradan chief guard

Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, deported some of the poor people and those who were left in the city, even those who had gone over to the side of the king of Babylon, as well as the rest of the craftsmen.

16 and from poor [the] land: country/planet to remain Nebuzaradan chief guard to/for to tend vineyards and to/for to till

But Nebuzaradan allowed others of the poor people who were left in the country to stay and take care of the vineyards and the fields.

17 and [obj] pillar [the] bronze which to/for house: temple LORD and [obj] [the] base and [obj] sea [the] bronze which in/on/with house: temple LORD to break Chaldea and to lift: bear [obj] all bronze their Babylon [to]

The Babylonians broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the movable carts, and the bronze Sea that belonged to the Lord's Temple, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.

18 and [obj] [the] pot and [obj] [the] shovel and [obj] [the] snuffer and [obj] [the] bowl and [obj] [the] palm: dish and [obj] all article/utensil [the] bronze which to minister in/on/with them to take: take

They also took all the pots, shovels, lamp snuffers, sprinkling bowls, and all the other bronze items used in the Temple service.

19 and [obj] [the] basin and [obj] [the] censer and [obj] [the] bowl and [obj] [the] pot and [obj] [the] lampstand and [obj] [the] palm: dish and [obj] [the] bowl which gold gold and which silver: money silver: money to take: take chief guard

The commander of the guard removed the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls, anything that was made of pure gold or silver.

20 [the] pillar two [the] sea one and [the] cattle two ten bronze which underneath: under [the] base which to make [the] king Solomon to/for house: temple LORD not to be weight to/for bronze their all [the] article/utensil [the] these

The amount of bronze that came from the two columns, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable carts, which Solomon had made for the Lord's Temple, all of this weighed more than could be measured.

21 and [the] pillar eight ten cubit (height *QK) [the] pillar [the] one and thread two ten cubit to turn: surround him and thickness his four finger be hollow

Each column was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits around. They were hollow with walls four fingers thick.

22 and capital upon him bronze and height [the] capital [the] one five cubit and latticework and pomegranate upon [the] capital around [the] all bronze and like/as these to/for pillar [the] second and pomegranate

The bronze capital on top of one column was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates around it. The second column was the same, and also had a decorative network.

23 and to be [the] pomegranate ninety and six spirit: side [to] all [the] pomegranate hundred upon [the] latticework around

There were ninety-six bronze pomegranates around each column. Above the network were a total of one hundred pomegranates.

24 and to take: take chief guard [obj] Seraiah priest [the] head: leader and [obj] Zephaniah priest [the] second and [obj] three to keep: guard [the] threshold

The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah, the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest, second in rank, and the three Temple doorkeepers.

25 and from [the] city to take: take eunuch one which to be overseer upon human [the] battle and seven human from to see: approach face [the] king which to find in/on/with city and [obj] secretary ruler [the] army [the] to serve [obj] people [the] land: country/planet and sixty man from people [the] land: country/planet [the] to find in/on/with midst [the] city

From those left in the city he took the officer in charge of the soldiers, and seven of the king's advisors. He also took the secretary to the army commander who was in charge of calling up the people for military service, and sixty other men who were present in the city.

26 and to take: take [obj] them Nebuzaradan chief guard and to go: take [obj] them to(wards) king Babylon Riblah [to]

Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took them and brought them before the king of Babylon at Riblah.

27 and to smite [obj] them king Babylon and to die them in/on/with Riblah in/on/with land: country/planet Hamath and to reveal: remove Judah from upon land: soil his

The king of Babylon had them executed at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So the people of Judah had to leave their land.

28 this [the] people which to reveal: remove Nebuchadnezzar in/on/with year seven Jew three thousand and twenty and three

This is a record of the number of people Nebuchadnezzar took into exile. In the seventh year of his reign he took 3,023 Judeans.

29 in/on/with year eight ten to/for Nebuchadnezzar from Jerusalem soul: person eight hundred thirty and two

In his eighteenth year Nebuchadnezzar took another 832 from Jerusalem.

30 in/on/with year three and twenty to/for Nebuchadnezzar to reveal: remove Nebuzaradan chief guard Jew soul: person seven hundred forty and five all soul: person four thousand and six hundred

In his twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took another 745 Judeans, making a total of 4,600.

31 and to be in/on/with thirty and seven year to/for captivity Jehoiachin king Judah in/on/with two ten month in/on/with twenty and five to/for month to lift: kindness Evil-merodach Evil-merodach king Babylon in/on/with year royalty his [obj] head: leader Jehoiachin king Judah and to come out: send [obj] him from house: home ([the] prison *Qk)

In the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison. This happened on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah.

32 and to speak: speak with him welfare and to give: give [obj] throne: seat his from above to/for throne: seat ([the] king *QK) which with him in/on/with Babylon

The king of Babylon treated him well him and gave him a position of honor higher than the other kings there with him in Babylon.

33 and to change [obj] garment prison his and to eat food: allowance to/for face his continually all day life his

So Jehoiachin was able to remove his prison clothes, and he ate frequently at the king's table for the rest of his life.

34 and ration his ration continually to give: give to/for him from with king Babylon word: portion day: daily in/on/with day: daily his till day death his all day life his

The king provided Jehoiachin with a daily allowance for the rest of his life until he died.