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And now it was that the king of Babylon sent Nebuzaradan, the general
of his army, to Jerusalem, to pillage the temple, who had it also in command
to burn it and the royal palace, and to lay the city even with the ground,
and to transplant the people into Babylon. Accordingly, he came to Jerusalem
in the eleventh year of king Zedekiah, and pillaged the temple, and carried
out the vessels of God, both gold and silver, and particularly that large
laver which Solomon dedicated, as also the pillars of brass, and their
chapiters, with the golden tables and the candlesticks; and when he had
carried these off, he set fire to the temple in the fifth month, the first
day of the month, in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, and in
the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar: he also burnt the palace, and overthrew
the city. Now the temple was burnt four hundred and seventy years, six
months, and ten days after it was built. It was then one thousand and sixty-two
years, six months, and ten days from the departure out of Egypt; and from
the deluge to the destruction of the temple, the whole interval was one
thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven years, six months, and ten days;
but from the generation of Adam, until this befell the temple, there were
three thousand five hundred and thirteen years, six months, and ten days;
so great was the number of years hereto belonging. And what actions were
done during these years we have particularly related. But the general of
the Babylonian king now overthrew the city to the very foundations, and
removed all the people, and took for prisoners the high priest Seraiah,
and Zephaniah the priest that was next to him, and the rulers that guarded
the temple, who were three in number, and the eunuch who was over the armed
men, and seven friends of Zedekiah, and his scribe, and sixty other rulers;
all which, together with the vessels which they had pillaged, he carried
to the king of Babylon to Riblah, a city of Syria. So the king commanded
the heads of the high priest and of the rulers to be cut off there; but
he himself led all the captives and Zedekiah to Babylon. He also led Josedek
the high priest away bound. He was the son of Seraiah the high priest,
whom the king of Babylon had slain in Riblah, a city of Syria, as we just
now related.
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