Jeremiah 52:12-23

International Standard Version

The Destruction of the Temple

¹² In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—it was the nineteenth year of the reign of^[a] King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard who served^[b] the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. ¹³ He burned the Lord’s Temple, the king’s house, and all the houses in Jerusalem. He also burned every public building^[c] with fire. ¹⁴ All the Chaldean troops who were with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.^[d]

¹⁷ The Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars that were in the Lord’s Temple and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the Lord’s Temple, and they carried all the^[e] bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸ They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the pans, and all the bronze utensils that were used in the temple service. ¹⁹ The captain of the guard took away the bowls, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the pans, and the bowls for libations, both those made of gold and those made of silver. ²⁰ There was too much bronze to weigh in the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze oxen that were under the sea,^[f] and the stands which King Solomon had made for the Lord’s Temple. ²¹ Each of the pillars was twelve cubits^[g] high and its circumference twelve cubits.^[h] It was hollow and about a handbreadth^[i] thick. ²² On each pillar^[j] was a capital of bronze, and the height of each capital was five cubits.^[k] Latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar was like this, including the pomegranates. ²³ There were 96 pomegranates open to view.^[l] In all, there were 100 pomegranates all around the latticework.