¹⁷ The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.^(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord.

¹² Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered^(A) to him.

In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner. ¹³ As the Lord had declared,^(B) Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures^(C) from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles^(D) that Solomon^(E) king of Israel had made for the temple of the Lord. ¹⁴ He carried all Jerusalem into exile:^(F) all the officers and fighting men,^(G) and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest^(H) people of the land were left.

¹⁵ Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin^(I) captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother,^(J) his wives, his officials and the prominent people^(K) of the land. ¹⁶ The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans.^(L)

¹³ The Babylonians broke^(A) up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the Lord and they carried the bronze to Babylon. ¹⁴ They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes^(B) and all the bronze articles^(C) used in the temple service. ¹⁵ The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—all that were made of pure gold or silver.^(D)

¹⁶ The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, was more than could be weighed. ¹⁷ Each pillar^(E) was eighteen cubits^[a] high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits^[b] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.