Jeremiah 52:11-15

52:11 He had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains. ¹  Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died.

52:12 On the tenth ²  day of the fifth month, ³  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁴  who served ⁵  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 52:13 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. 52:14 The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem. 52:15 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, ⁶  the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen.

¹ tn Heb “fetters of bronze.” The more generic “chains” is used in the translation because “fetters” is a word unfamiliar to most modern readers.

² tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

³ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁴ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

⁵ tn Heb “stood before.”

³ tn Heb “poor of the people.”