14. Then the Chaldean troops with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.
15. Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, led into exile the remnant of people left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisans.
16. But Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, left behind some of the country’s poor as vinedressers and farmers.
17. The bronze pillars that belonged to the house of the Lord, and the wheeled carts and the bronze sea in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke into pieces; they carried away all the bronze to Babylon.
18. They also took the pots, shovels, snuffers, bowls, pans, and all the bronze vessels used for service;
19. the basins, fire holders, bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, the sacrificial bowls made of gold or silver. Along with these furnishings the captain of the guard carried off
20. the two pillars, the one sea and its base of twelve oxen cast in bronze, and the wheeled carts King Solomon had commissioned for the house of the Lord. The bronze from all these furnishings was impossible to weigh.
21. As for the pillars, each of them was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in diameter; each was four fingers thick and hollow inside.
22. A bronze capital five cubits high crowned the one pillar, and a network with pomegranates encircled the capital, all of bronze; and so for the other pillar, with pomegranates.
23. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, a hundred pomegranates surrounding the network.
24. The captain of the guard also took Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the entrance.
25. From the city he took one courtier, a commander of soldiers, and seven men in the personal service of the king still in the city, the scribe of the army commander who mustered the people of the land, and sixty of the common people remaining in the city.
26. The captain of the guard, Nebuzaradan, arrested them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah,
27. who had them struck down and executed in Riblah, in the land of Hamath.Thus Judah was exiled from the land.
28. This is the number of people Nebuchadnezzar led away captive: in his seventh year, three thousand twenty-three people of Judah;