WEBVTT 00:00:00.900 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.700 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.700 --> 00:00:08.900 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:13.019 Jeremiah chapters 39 and 52, as well as 2 Kings 00:00:13.019 --> 00:00:17.800 chapter 25. The book of Jeremiah chapter 39. 00:00:18.339 --> 00:00:21.059 In the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.679 in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:27.140 and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged 00:00:27.140 --> 00:00:29.620 it. In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the 00:00:29.620 --> 00:00:31.879 fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, 00:00:31.980 --> 00:00:34.719 the city was penetrated. Then all the princes 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.159 of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:49.000 middle gate. With the rest of the princes of 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.409 the king of Babylon. So it was when Zedekiah 00:00:52.409 --> 00:00:54.810 the king of Judah and all the men of war saw 00:00:54.810 --> 00:00:57.170 them, that they fled and went out of the city 00:00:57.170 --> 00:01:00.130 by night by way of the king's garden, by the 00:01:00.130 --> 00:01:02.869 gate between the two walls, and he went out by 00:01:02.869 --> 00:01:06.170 way of the plain. But the Chaldean army pursued 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:08.769 them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. 00:01:08.870 --> 00:01:11.049 And when they had captured him, they brought 00:01:11.049 --> 00:01:13.650 him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to 00:01:13.650 --> 00:01:16.609 Riblah, in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced 00:01:16.609 --> 00:01:19.430 judgment on him. Then the king of Babylon killed 00:01:19.430 --> 00:01:22.549 the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah. 00:01:22.629 --> 00:01:25.129 The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles 00:01:25.129 --> 00:01:28.290 of Judah. Moreover, he put out Zedekiah's eyes 00:01:28.290 --> 00:01:30.790 and bound him with bronze fetters to carry him 00:01:30.790 --> 00:01:33.409 off to Babylon. And the Chaldeans burned the 00:01:33.409 --> 00:01:35.609 king's house and houses of the people with fire 00:01:35.609 --> 00:01:38.790 and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. Then Nebuchadnezzar, 00:01:38.909 --> 00:01:41.549 the captain of the guard, carried away captive 00:01:41.549 --> 00:01:44.030 to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained 00:01:44.030 --> 00:01:47.180 in the city and those who defected to him. with 00:01:47.180 --> 00:01:49.620 the rest of the people who remained. But Nebuchadnezzar, 00:01:49.780 --> 00:01:52.140 the captain of the guard, left in the land of 00:01:52.140 --> 00:01:55.019 Judah the poor people who had nothing, and gave 00:01:55.019 --> 00:01:58.200 them vineyards and fields at the same time. Now 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:00.780 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, gave charge 00:02:00.780 --> 00:02:03.500 concerning Jeremiah to Nebuchadnezzar, the captain 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:06.359 of the guard, saying, Take him and look after 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.460 him, and do him no harm, but do to him just as 00:02:09.460 --> 00:02:12.280 he says to you. So Nebuchadnezzar, the captain 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:21.479 of the guard, sent Nebuchadnezzar Then they sent 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.759 someone to take Jeremiah from the court of the 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.659 prison and committed him to Gedaliah, the son 00:02:26.659 --> 00:02:29.439 of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:32.039 take him home. So he dwelt among the people. 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:34.879 Meanwhile, the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.360 while he was shut up in the court of the prison, 00:02:37.460 --> 00:02:43.509 saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God 00:02:43.509 --> 00:02:46.330 of Israel, Behold, I will bring my words upon 00:02:46.330 --> 00:02:49.689 this city for adversity and not for good, and 00:02:49.689 --> 00:02:52.129 they shall be performed in that day before you. 00:02:52.229 --> 00:02:54.889 But I will deliver you in that day, says the 00:02:54.889 --> 00:02:57.469 Lord, and you shall not be given into the hand 00:02:57.469 --> 00:03:00.430 of the men of whom you are afraid. For I will 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:02.849 surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by 00:03:02.849 --> 00:03:05.509 the sword, but your life shall be as a prize 00:03:05.509 --> 00:03:08.150 to you, because you have put your trust in me, 00:03:08.270 --> 00:03:15.189 says the Lord. Zedekiah was 21 years old when 00:03:15.189 --> 00:03:17.750 he became king and he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. 00:03:18.009 --> 00:03:20.530 His mother's name was Hamotel, the daughter of 00:03:20.530 --> 00:03:23.370 Jeremiah of Libna. He also did evil in the sight 00:03:23.370 --> 00:03:26.310 of the Lord according to all that Jehoiakim had 00:03:26.310 --> 00:03:29.050 done. For because of the anger of the Lord, this 00:03:29.050 --> 00:03:31.650 happened in Jerusalem and Judah till he finally 00:03:31.650 --> 00:03:34.430 cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah 00:03:34.430 --> 00:03:37.150 rebelled against the king of Babylon. Now it 00:03:37.150 --> 00:03:39.580 came to pass in the ninth year of his reign In 00:03:39.580 --> 00:03:41.360 the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:44.099 that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his 00:03:44.099 --> 00:03:46.879 army came against Jerusalem and encamped against 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:49.919 it, and they built a siege wall against it all 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:53.020 around. So the city was besieged until the eleventh 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:56.219 year of king Zedekiah. By the fourth month, on 00:03:56.219 --> 00:03:58.360 the ninth day of the month, the famine had become 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.219 so severe in the city that there was no food 00:04:01.219 --> 00:04:04.259 for the people of the land. Then the city wall 00:04:04.259 --> 00:04:07.120 was broken through, And all the men of war fled 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:10.099 and went out of the city at night by way of the 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:12.319 gate between the two walls, which was by the 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.840 king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.420 near the city all around, and they went by way 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:20.060 of the plain. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:22.560 the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:25.339 of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. 00:04:25.459 --> 00:04:27.620 So they took the king and brought him up to the 00:04:27.620 --> 00:04:30.560 king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamad, 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.449 and he pronounced judgment on him. Then the king 00:04:33.449 --> 00:04:35.689 of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before 00:04:35.689 --> 00:04:38.370 his eyes, and he killed all the princes of Judah 00:04:38.370 --> 00:04:41.329 in Riblah. He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah, 00:04:41.509 --> 00:04:44.050 and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, 00:04:44.209 --> 00:04:47.129 took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till 00:04:47.129 --> 00:04:49.709 the day of his death. Now in the fifth month, 00:04:49.790 --> 00:04:51.870 on the tenth day of the month, which was the 00:04:51.870 --> 00:04:54.209 nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of 00:04:54.209 --> 00:04:57.430 Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, the captain of the guard, 00:04:57.610 --> 00:04:59.910 who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 00:05:00.379 --> 00:05:02.240 He burned the house of the Lord and the king's 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.899 house, all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.939 all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.459 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with 00:05:10.459 --> 00:05:12.879 the captain of the guard, broke down all the 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.579 walls of Jerusalem all around. Then Nebuchadnezzar, 00:05:15.699 --> 00:05:18.160 the captain of the guard, carried away captive 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:20.839 some of the poor people, the rest of the people 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.439 who remained in the city, the defectors who had 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.480 deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.009 of the craftsmen. But Nebuchadnezzar, the captain 00:05:28.009 --> 00:05:30.449 of the guard, left some of the poor of the land 00:05:30.449 --> 00:05:33.209 as vinedressers and farmers. The bronze pillars 00:05:33.209 --> 00:05:35.810 that were in the house of the Lord, and the carts 00:05:35.810 --> 00:05:38.009 and the bronze sea that were in the house of 00:05:38.009 --> 00:05:40.689 the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried 00:05:40.689 --> 00:05:43.550 all their bronze to Babylon. They also took away 00:05:43.550 --> 00:05:46.389 the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the bowls, 00:05:46.569 --> 00:05:48.970 the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with 00:05:48.970 --> 00:05:51.720 which the priests ministered. The basins, the 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.939 firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, 00:05:54.939 --> 00:05:57.319 the spoons, and the cups, whatever was solid 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.759 gold and whatever was solid silver, the captain 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.540 of the guard took away. The two pillars, one 00:06:02.540 --> 00:06:05.620 sea, the twelve bronze bowls, which were under 00:06:05.620 --> 00:06:08.199 it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:10.740 for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:13.730 these articles was beyond measure. now concerning 00:06:13.730 --> 00:06:16.850 the pillars the height of one pillar was 18 cubits 00:06:16.850 --> 00:06:20.230 a measuring line of 12 cubits could measure its 00:06:20.230 --> 00:06:23.310 circumference and its thickness was four fingers 00:06:23.310 --> 00:06:27.350 it was hollow a capital of bronze was on it and 00:06:27.350 --> 00:06:30.230 the height of one capital was five cubits with 00:06:30.230 --> 00:06:33.170 a network and pomegranates all around the capital 00:06:33.170 --> 00:06:36.750 all of bronze the second pillar with pomegranates 00:06:36.750 --> 00:06:40.230 was the same there were 96 pomegranates on the 00:06:40.230 --> 00:06:43.300 sides All the pomegranates all around on the 00:06:43.300 --> 00:06:46.420 network were 100. The captain of the guard took 00:06:46.420 --> 00:06:49.240 Saria the chief priest, Zephaniah the second 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:52.160 priest, and the three doorkeepers. He also took 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.459 out of the city an officer who had charge of 00:06:54.459 --> 00:06:57.259 the men of war, seven men of the king's close 00:06:57.259 --> 00:07:00.319 associates who were found in the city. the principal 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.439 scribe of the army who mustered the people of 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.939 the land, and sixty men of the people of the 00:07:04.939 --> 00:07:07.300 land who were found in the midst of the city. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:09.959 And Nebuchadnezzar, the captain of the guard, 00:07:10.139 --> 00:07:12.540 took these and brought them to the king of Babylon 00:07:12.540 --> 00:07:15.420 at Riblah. Then the king of Babylon struck them 00:07:15.420 --> 00:07:17.879 and put them to death at Riblah in the land of 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:21.160 Hamad. Thus Judah was carried away captive from 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.040 its own land. These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:27.019 carried away captive. In the seventh year, three 00:07:27.019 --> 00:07:30.480 thousand and twenty -three Jews. In the 18th 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.839 year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:37.959 from Jerusalem 832 persons. In the 23rd year 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.879 of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebu Zaradan, the captain 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.319 of the guard, carried away captive of the Jews 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:49.759 745 persons. All the persons were 4 ,600. Now 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:51.839 it came to pass, in the thirty -seventh year 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:54.779 of the captivity of Jehoashin king of Judah, 00:07:54.939 --> 00:07:57.240 in the twelfth month on the twenty -fifth day 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:00.899 of the month, that evil Merodach king of Babylon, 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.819 in the first year of his reign, lifted up the 00:08:03.819 --> 00:08:06.920 head of Jehoakim king of Judah and brought him 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.879 out of prison. And he spoke kindly to him and 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.620 gave him a more prominent seat than those of 00:08:12.620 --> 00:08:15.939 the kings who were with him in Babylon. So Jehoiakim 00:08:15.939 --> 00:08:18.899 changed from his prison garments, and he ate 00:08:18.899 --> 00:08:21.240 bread regularly before the king all the days 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.420 of his life. And as for his provisions, there 00:08:24.420 --> 00:08:26.860 was a regular ration given him by the king of 00:08:26.860 --> 00:08:30.000 Babylon, a portion for each day until the day 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:38.039 of his death, all the days of his life. Now it 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.259 came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.279 in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, 00:08:43.379 --> 00:08:45.840 that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.679 army came against Jerusalem and encamped against 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.340 it, and they built a siege wall against it all 00:08:51.340 --> 00:08:54.360 around. So the city was besieged until the eleventh 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.860 year of king Zedekiah. by the ninth day of the 00:08:56.860 --> 00:08:59.220 fourth month the famine had become so severe 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:01.580 in the city that there was no food for the people 00:09:01.580 --> 00:09:04.279 of the land then the city wall was broken through 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.159 and all the men of war fled at night by way of 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:09.580 the gate between the two walls which was by the 00:09:09.580 --> 00:09:12.179 king's garden even though the chaldeans were 00:09:12.179 --> 00:09:14.980 still encamped all around against the city and 00:09:14.980 --> 00:09:17.399 the king went by way of the plain but the army 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.960 of the chaldeans pursued the king and they overtook 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.509 him in the plains of jericho All his army was 00:09:22.509 --> 00:09:25.110 scattered from him. So they took the king and 00:09:25.110 --> 00:09:27.210 brought him up to the king of Babylon at Ribla, 00:09:27.309 --> 00:09:30.149 and they pronounced judgment on him. Then they 00:09:30.149 --> 00:09:32.269 killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, 00:09:32.429 --> 00:09:35.289 put out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with 00:09:35.289 --> 00:09:37.909 bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon. And 00:09:37.909 --> 00:09:39.909 in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the 00:09:39.909 --> 00:09:42.250 month, which was the nineteenth year of King 00:09:42.250 --> 00:09:44.710 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, 00:09:44.809 --> 00:09:47.669 the captain of the guard, a servant of the king 00:09:47.669 --> 00:09:50.460 of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He burned the 00:09:50.460 --> 00:09:53.019 house of the Lord and the king's house, all the 00:09:53.019 --> 00:09:55.299 houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses 00:09:55.299 --> 00:09:58.100 of the great. He burned with fire, and all the 00:09:58.100 --> 00:09:59.919 army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain 00:09:59.919 --> 00:10:02.220 of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem 00:10:02.220 --> 00:10:05.500 all around. Then Nebuchadnezzar, the captain 00:10:05.500 --> 00:10:07.620 of the guard, carried away captive the rest of 00:10:07.620 --> 00:10:09.799 the people who remained in the city, and the 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.399 defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.840 with the rest of the multitude. But the captain 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.179 of the guard left some of the poor of the land 00:10:17.179 --> 00:10:20.000 as vinedressers and farmers. The bronze pillars 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.360 that were in the house of the Lord and the carts 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.720 and the bronze sea that were in the house of 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.639 the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:30.500 their bronze to Babylon. They also took away 00:10:30.500 --> 00:10:33.320 the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.019 and all the bronze utensils with which the priests 00:10:36.019 --> 00:10:39.299 ministered, the firepans and the basins, the 00:10:39.299 --> 00:10:42.080 things of solid gold and solid silver the captain 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.059 of the guard took away, the two pillars, one 00:10:45.059 --> 00:10:48.360 sea, and the carts, which Solomon had made for 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.159 the house of the Lord. The bronze of all these 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:53.840 articles was beyond measure. The height of one 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.600 pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital on 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:59.299 it was of bronze. The height of the capital was 00:10:59.299 --> 00:11:02.059 three cubits, and the network and pomegranates 00:11:02.059 --> 00:11:04.960 all around the capital were all of bronze. The 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.240 second pillar was the same, with a network. And 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.620 the captain of the guard took Soraya the chief 00:11:10.620 --> 00:11:13.159 priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.740 three doorkeepers. He also took out of the city 00:11:15.740 --> 00:11:18.200 an officer who had charge of the men of war. 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.379 five men of the king's close associates who were 00:11:21.379 --> 00:11:23.860 found in the city, the chief recruiting officer 00:11:23.860 --> 00:11:26.539 of the army who mustered the people of the land, 00:11:26.659 --> 00:11:29.399 and sixty men of the people of the land who were 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:32.620 found in the city. So Nebuchadnezzar, captain 00:11:32.620 --> 00:11:35.019 of the guard, took these and brought them to 00:11:35.019 --> 00:11:37.519 the king of Babylon at Riblah. Then the king 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:40.259 of Babylon struck them and put them to death 00:11:40.259 --> 00:11:43.440 at Riblah in the land of Hamad. Thus Judah was 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.299 carried away captive from its own land. Then 00:11:46.299 --> 00:11:49.320 he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:51.879 Shaphan, governor over the people who remained 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.519 in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.559 of Babylon, had left. Now when all the captains 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:00.120 of the armies, they and their men, heard that 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:02.399 the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.879 they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, Ishmael the 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:10.360 son of Nathania, Johanan the son of Kariah, Sariah 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:14.320 the son of Tenhumait, the Netophittite. and Jazania 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:17.759 the son of Amaketite, they and their men. And 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.159 Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, 00:12:20.259 --> 00:12:22.600 and said to them, Do not be afraid of the servants 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.139 of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:27.539 the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with 00:12:27.539 --> 00:12:30.220 you. But it happened in the seventh month, that 00:12:30.220 --> 00:12:33.139 Ishmael the son of Nethania, the son of Elishama 00:12:33.139 --> 00:12:35.899 of the royal family, came with ten men, and struck 00:12:35.899 --> 00:12:38.460 and killed Gedaliah, the Jews as well as the 00:12:38.460 --> 00:12:41.059 Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah, and all 00:12:41.059 --> 00:12:43.120 the people small and great, and the captains 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.480 of the armies arose and went to Egypt, for they 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.039 were afraid of the Chaldeans. Now it came to 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.299 pass in the thirty -seventh year of the captivity 00:12:50.299 --> 00:12:53.759 of Jehoashin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:56.799 on the twenty -seventh day of the month, that 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.080 evil Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.899 he began to reign, released Jehoashin king of 00:13:02.899 --> 00:13:05.570 Judah from prison. He spoke kindly to him and 00:13:05.570 --> 00:13:08.110 gave him a more prominent seat than those of 00:13:08.110 --> 00:13:11.269 the kings who were with him in Babylon. So Jehoashin 00:13:11.269 --> 00:13:14.190 changed from his prison garments and he ate bread 00:13:14.190 --> 00:13:16.450 regularly before the king all the days of his 00:13:16.450 --> 00:13:19.409 life. And as for his provisions, there was a 00:13:19.409 --> 00:13:22.210 regular ration given him by the king, a portion 00:13:22.210 --> 00:13:30.850 for each day, all the days of his life. I hope 00:13:30.850 --> 00:13:32.690 you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did. 00:13:33.149 --> 00:13:34.789 And I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow 00:13:34.789 --> 00:13:37.309 to continue on our journey. God bless you and 00:13:37.309 --> 00:13:37.970 have a great day.