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;
29. in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty-two persons from Jerusalem;
30. in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, deported seven hundred forty-five Judahites: four thousand six hundred persons in all.
31. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the inaugural year of his reign, raised up Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and released him from prison.
32. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne higher than the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
33. Jehoiachin took off his prison garb and ate at the king’s table as long as he lived.
34. The allowance given him by the king of Babylon was a perpetual allowance, in fixed daily amounts, all the days of his life until the day of his death.