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The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.

בָּאֵ֣שׁ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”בְּדֵי־ (בְּ) be. “for”בְּדֵי־ (בְּ) be. “for”

The order which Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his rule. Now Seraiah was the chief controller of the house.

בְּלֶכְתּ֞וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”בִּשְׁנַ֥ת (בִּ) bi “in”

And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.

בּוֹ֙ (בּ) b “in <the>”

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

בְמָלְכ֔וֹ (בְ) ve. “when”בִּירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֣ם (בִּ) bi. “in”בְּמֶ֥לֶךְ (בְּ) be. “against”

And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.

בַשָּׁנָ֨ה (בַ) va. “in the”בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ (בַּ) ba. “in the”בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹר (בֶּ) be. “on the”

So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

בַּמָּצ֑וֹר (בַּ) ba. “in <the>”

In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁ (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּתִשְׁעָ֣ה (בְּ) be. “on”בָּעִ֑יר (בָּ) ba. “in the”

And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.

בְּעַֽרְבֹ֣ת (בְּ) be. “in”

Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.

בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (בְּ) be. “in”

And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.

בְּרִבְלָֽתָה׃ (בְּ) be. “at”

And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

בַֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֗יִם (בַֽ) va “with <the>”

Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.

וּבַחֹ֤דֶשׁ (בַ) va. “in the”בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹר (בֶּ) be. “on the”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:

בָּאֵֽשׁ׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who were still in the town, and those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the workmen.

בָּעִ֗יר (בָּ) ba. “in the”

And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.

בְּבֵית־ (בְּ) be. “[were] in”

And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.

בָהֶ֖ם (בָ) va. “with <the>”

And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military o

בָעִ֔יר (בָ) va. “in the”בְּת֥וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land.

בְּרִבְלָ֖ה (בְּ) be. “at”בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (בְּ) be. “in”

These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:

בִּשְׁנַת־ (בִּ) bi “in”

And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons:

בִּשְׁנַ֛ת (בִּ) bi “in”

In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

בִּשְׁנַ֨ת (בִּ) bi “in”

And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, o

בִשְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים (בִ) vi “in”בִּשְׁנֵ֤ים (בִּ) bi “in”בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים (בְּ) be. “on”בִּשְׁנַ֣ת (בִּ) bi “in”

And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

בְּבָבֶֽל׃ (בְּ) be. “in”