Yeremya 52

¹Sedekiya yirmi bir yaşında kral oldu ve Yeruşalim'de on bir yıl krallık yaptı; annesinin adı Lobenalı Yeremya'nın kızı Ameitaal'dı.

⁴Krallığının dokuzuncu yılında, onuncu ayın onuncu gününde, Babil Kralı Nabuhodonosor ve bütün ordusu Yeruşalim'e karşı geldi; kentin çevresine hendekler kazıp tahkimat yaptılar ve etrafını yontma taşlardan bir duvarla ördüler.

⁵Kent, Kral Sedekiya'nın on birinci yılına kadar kuşatmanın getirdiği çaresizlik ve darlık içinde kaldı.

⁶Ayın dokuzuncu gününde kentteki kıtlık iyice yerleşip kalıcı hale geldi ve ülke halkı için yiyecek ekmek kalmadı.

⁷Kentin surlarında bir gedik açılıp yarıldı; Kildaniler kentin çevresini kuşatmış olduğu halde, bütün savaşçı adamlar geceleyin kralın bahçesinin yanındaki sur ile ön sur arasındaki kapının yolundan dışarı çıktılar ve Arava yoluna doğru gittiler.

⁸Kildani ordusu kralın peşine düştü ve onu Eriha'nın karşı yakasında yakaladı; kralın yanındaki bütün hizmetkarları ise dağılıp ondan uzaklaştı.

⁹Kralı yakalayıp Deblata'ya, Babil Kralı'nın huzuruna götürdüler; o da onun hakkında yargısal bir karar verdi.

¹⁰Babil Kralı, Sedekiya'nın oğullarını onun gözleri önünde boğazladı; Deblata'da Yahuda'nın bütün önderlerini de boğazladı.

¹¹Sedekiya'nın gözlerini kör etti ve onu prangalarla bağladı; Babil Kralı onu Babil'e götürüp öleceği güne kadar değirmencinin evine kapattı.

¹²Beşinci ayın onuncu gününde, Babil Kralı'nın huzurunda duran muhafız şefi Nabuzardan Yeruşalim'e geldi.

¹³Rab'bin evini, kralın sarayını ve Yeruşalim'deki bütün evleri ateşe verdi; her büyük evi ateşle yakıp kül etti.

¹⁴Muhafız şefiyle birlikte olan bütün Kildani ordusu, Yeruşalim'in çevresindeki tüm surları yıktı.

¹⁶Ancak muhafız şefi, halkın geri kalanını bağcı ve çiftçi olarak geride bıraktı.

¹⁷Kildaniler, Rab'bin evindeki tunç sütunları, ayaklıkları ve Rab'bin evindeki tunç denizi parçalayıp tuncunu aldılar ve Babil'e taşıdılar.

¹⁸Kenarlıkları, çanakları, et çatallarını ve tapınak hizmetinde kullanılan bütün tunç kapları da aldılar.

¹⁹Muhafız şefi leğenleri, makasları, dökmeci kaplarını, kandillikleri, buhurdanları ve tasları; saf altından olan altın eşyaları ve saf gümüşten olan gümüş eşyaları alıp götürdü.

²⁰Kral Süleyman'ın Rab'bin evi için yaptırmış olduğu iki sütun, bir deniz ve denizin altındaki on iki tunç boğa için kullanılan tuncun ağırlığı ölçülemez miktardaydı.

²¹Sütunlara gelince; tek bir sütunun yüksekliği otuz beş arşındı, çevresi on iki arşınlık bir iple ölçülürdü ve kalınlığı çepeçevre dört parmaktı.

²²Üzerlerinde tunçtan birer başlık vardı; tek bir başlığın yüksekliği beş arşındı. Başlığın çevresi tunçtan ağ ve narlarla kaplıydı; hepsi tunçtandı. İkinci sütun da buna benziyordu; on iki arşınlık kısımda her arşına sekiz nar düşüyordu.

²³Yanlarda doksan altı nar vardı; ağın üzerindeki narların toplamı ise çepeçevre yüz adetti.

²⁴Muhafız şefi, başkâhini, ikinci kâhini ve yolu koruyan üç nöbetçiyi tutsak aldı.

²⁵Kentte bulunanlardan, savaşçıların başında olan bir hadımı, kralın huzurunda bulunan ve kentte yakalanan yedi saygın adamı, ülke halkını askere yazan ordu yazıcısını ve kentin ortasında bulunan ülke halkından altmış kişiyi de aldı.

²⁶Kralın muhafız şefi Nabuzardan onları yakalayıp Deblata'ya, Babil Kralı'nın huzuruna götürdü.

²⁷Babil Kralı, Aimat ülkesindeki Deblata'da onları vurup öldürdü.

³¹Yahuda Kralı İoakeim'in sürgün edilmesinin otuz yedinci yılında, on ikinci ayın yirmi dördüncü gününde, Babil Kralı Oulaimaradach, kral olduğu yıl Yahuda Kralı İoakeim'in itibarını iade edip başını kaldırdı ve onu tutuklu bulunduğu evden çıkardı.

³²Onunla hoş şeyler konuştu ve tahtını Babil'e kendisiyle birlikte olan diğer kralların tahtlarının üstüne koydu.

³³İoakeim zindan giysilerini değiştirdi ve yaşadığı sürece her gün kralın huzurunda yemek yedi.

³⁴Öleceği güne kadar, Babil Kralı tarafından kendisine her gün düzenli bir pay verildi.

¹ΟΝΤΟΣ εἰκοστοῦ καὶ ἑνὸς ἔτους Σεδεκίου ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτόν, καὶ ἕνδεκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ ᾿Αμειτάαλ, θυγάτηρ ῾Ιερεμίου, ἐκ Λοβενά.

⁴καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ ἐνάτῳ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ἐν μηνὶ τῷ δεκάτῳ, δεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνός, ἦλθε Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος καὶ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμις αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ περιεχαράκωσαν αὐτὴν καὶ περιῳκοδόμησαν αὐτὴν τετραπέδοις λίθοις κύκλῳ.

⁵καὶ ἦλθεν ἡ πόλις εἰς συνοχὴν ἕως ἑνδεκάτου ἔτους τῷ βασιλεῖ Σεδεκίᾳ·

⁶ἐν τῇ ἐνάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς καὶ ἐστερεώθη ὁ λιμὸς ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ οὐκ ἦσαν ἄρτοι τῷ λαῷ τῆς γῆς.

⁷καὶ διεκόπη ἡ πόλις, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ πολεμισταὶ ἐξῆλθον νυκτὸς κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς πύλης ἀναμέσον τοῦ τείχους καὶ τοῦ προτειχίσματος, ὃ ἦν κατὰ τὸν κῆπον τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ οἱ Χαλδαῖοι ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως κύκλῳ. καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ὁδὸν τὴν εἰς ῎Αραβα,

⁸καὶ κατεδίωξεν ἡ δύναμις τῶν Χαλδαίων ὀπίσω τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ κατέλαβον αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ πέραν ῾Ιεριχώ, καὶ πάντες οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ διεσπάρησαν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ.

⁹καὶ συνέλαβον τὸν βασιλέα καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος εἰς Δεβλαθά, καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτῷ μετὰ κρίσεως.

¹⁰καὶ ἔσφαξε βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος τοὺς υἱοὺς Σεδεκίου κατ’ ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ, καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἄρχοντας ᾿Ιούδα ἔσφαξεν ἐν Δεβλαθά.

¹¹καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς Σεδεκίου ἐξετύφλωσε καὶ ἔδησεν αὐτὸν ἐν πέδαις, καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτὸν βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος εἰς Βαβυλῶνα καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὸν εἰς οἰκίαν μύλωνος ἕως ἡμέρας ἧς ἀπέθανε.

¹²καὶ ἐν μηνὶ πέμπτῳ, δεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνός, ἦλθε Ναβουζαρδὰν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος ὁ ἑστηκὼς κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ,

¹³καὶ ἐνέπρησε τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ πάσας τὰς οἰκίας τῆς πόλεως, καὶ πᾶσαν οἰκίαν μεγάλην ἐνέπρησεν ἐν πυρί.

¹⁴καὶ πᾶν τεῖχος ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ κύκλῳ καθεῖλεν ἡ δύναμις τῶν Χαλδαίων, ἡ μετὰ τοῦ ἀρχιμαγείρου.

¹⁶καὶ τοὺς καταλοίπους τοῦ λαοῦ κατέλιπεν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος εἰς ἀμπελουργοὺς καὶ εἰς γεωργούς.

¹⁷καὶ τοὺς στύλους τοὺς χαλκοῦς τοὺς ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου καὶ τὰς βάσεις καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν χαλκῆν τὴν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου συνέτριψαν οἱ Χαλδαῖοι καὶ ἔλαβον τὸν χαλκὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀπήνεγκαν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα.

¹⁸καὶ τὴν στεφάνην καὶ τὰς φιάλας καὶ τὰς κρεάγρας καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη τὰ χαλκᾶ, ἐν οἷς ἐλειτούργουν ἐν αὐτοῖς,

¹⁹καὶ τὰ σαφφὼθ καὶ τὰ μασμαρὼθ καὶ τοὺς ὑποχυτῆρας καὶ τὰς λυχνίας καὶ τὰς θυΐσκας καὶ τοὺς κυάθους, ἃ ἦν χρυσᾶ χρυσᾶ καὶ ἃ ἦν ἀργυρᾶ ἀργυρᾶ, ἔλαβεν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος.

²⁰καὶ οἱ στῦλοι δύο καὶ ἡ θάλασσα μία καὶ οἱ μόσχοι δώδεκα χαλκοῖ ὑποκάτω τῆς θαλάσσης, ἃ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμὼν εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου· οὐκ ἦν σταθμὸς τοῦ χαλκοῦ αὐτῶν.

²¹καὶ οἱ στῦλοι, τριακονταπέντε πηχῶν· ὕψος τοῦ στύλου τοῦ ἑνός, καὶ σπαρτίον δώδεκα πήχεων περιεκύκλου αὐτόν, καὶ τὸ πάχος αὐτοῦ δακτύλων τεσσάρων κύκλῳ,

²²καὶ γεῖσος ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς χαλκοῦν, καὶ πέντε πήχεων τὸ μῆκος ὑπεροχὴ τοῦ γείσους τοῦ ἑνός, καὶ δίκτυον καὶ ῥόαι ἐπὶ τοῦ γείσους κύκλῳ, τὰ πάντα χαλκᾶ· καὶ κατὰ ταῦτα τῷ στύλῳ τῷ δευτέρῳ, ὀκτὼ ρόαι τῷ πήχει τοῖς δώδεκα πήχεσι.

²³καὶ ἦσαν αἱ ρόαι ἐνενηκονταὲξ τὸ ἓν μέρος, καὶ ἦσαν αἱ πᾶσαι ρόαι ἑκατὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ δικτύου κύκλῳ.

²⁴καὶ ἔλαβεν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος τὸν ἱερέα τὸν πρῶτον καὶ τὸν ἱερέα τὸν δευτεροῦντα καὶ τοὺς τρεῖς τοὺς φυλάττοντας τὴν ὁδὸν

²⁵καὶ εὐνοῦχον ἕνα, ὃς ἦν ἐπιστάτης τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν πολεμιστῶν, καὶ ἑπτὰ ἄνδρας ὀνομαστοὺς τοὺς ἐν προσώπῳ τοῦ βασιλέως, τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ τὸν γραμματέα τῶν δυνάμεων, τὸν γραμματεύοντα τῷ λαῷ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἀνθρώπους ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ τῆς γῆς, τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν μέσῳ τῆς πόλεως·

²⁶καὶ ἔλαβεν αὐτοὺς Ναβουζαρδὰν ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτοὺς πρὸς βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος εἰς Δεβλαθά,

²⁷καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτοὺς βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐν Δεβλαθά, ἐν γῇ Αἰμάθ.

³¹καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ τριακοστῷ καὶ ἑβδόμῳ ἔτει, ἀποικισθέντος τοῦ ᾿Ιωακεὶμ βασιλέως ᾿Ιούδα ἐν τῷ δωδεκάτῳ μηνί, ἐν τῇ τετράδι καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνός, ἔλαβεν Οὐλαιμαραδὰχ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ, ᾧ ἐβασίλευσε, τὴν κεφαλὴν ᾿Ιωακεὶμ βασιλέως ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ἐξήγαγεν αὐτὸν ἐξ οἰκίας, ἧς ἐφυλάσσετο·

³²καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτῷ χρηστὰ καὶ ἔδωκε τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ ἐπάνω τῶν βασιλέων τῶν μετ’ αὐτοῦ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι·

³³καὶ ἤλλαξε τὴν στολὴν τῆς φυλακῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἤσθιεν ἄρτον διὰ παντὸς κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας, ἃς ἔζησε.

³⁴καὶ ἡ σύνταξις αὐτῷ ἐδίδοτο διὰ παντὸς παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος ἐξ ἡμέρας εἰς ἡμέραν ἕως ἡμέρας, ἧς ἀπέθανεν.

¹It was the twenty-first year of Sedekias, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobena.

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⁴And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, [that] Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round about it with large stones.

⁵So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias,

⁶on the ninth day of the month, and [then] the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

⁷And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the king’s garden; and the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they went by the way [leading] to the wilderness.

⁸But the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the [country] beyond Jericho; and all his servants were dispersed from [about] him.

⁹And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he judged him.

¹⁰And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Juda in Deblatha.

¹¹And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.

¹²And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;

¹³and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burnt with fire.

¹⁴And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.

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¹⁶But the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

¹⁷And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon.

¹⁸Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith they ministered;

¹⁹and the basons, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took away.

²⁰And the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the sea, which [things] king Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the brass of which [articles] was without weight.

²¹And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it [all] round was four fingers.

²²And [there was] a brazen chapter upon them, and the length was five cubits, [even] the height of one chapiter; and [there were] on the chapiter round about network and pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly the second pillar [had] eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits.

²³And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a side; and all the pomegranates on the network round about were a hundred.

²⁴And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;

²⁵and one eunuch, who was over the men of war, and seven men of renown, who were in the king’s presence that were found in the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

²⁶And Nabuzardan the captain of the king’s guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.

²⁷And the king of Babylon smote them in Deblatha, in the land of Aemath.

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³¹And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Ulaemaradach king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,

³²and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the kings that were with him in Babylon,

³³and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.

³⁴And his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day when he died.