Jeremiah 51:57 (NLT) - 57 I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her captains, officers, and warriors. They will fall asleep and never wake up again!” says the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Jeremiah 51:58 (NLT) - 58 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled to the ground, and her massive gates will be burned. The builders from many lands have worked in vain, for their work will be destroyed by fire!”
Jeremiah 51:59 (NLT) - 59 The prophet Jeremiah gave this message to Seraiah son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, a staff officer, when Seraiah went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah. This was during the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
Jeremiah 51:60 (NLT) - 60 Jeremiah had recorded on a scroll all the terrible disasters that would soon come upon Babylon—all the words written here.
Jeremiah 51:61 (NLT) - 61 He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, read aloud everything on this scroll.
Jeremiah 51:62 (NLT) - 62 Then say, ‘Lord, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. She will lie empty and abandoned forever.’
Jeremiah 51:63 (NLT) - 63 When you have finished reading the scroll, tie it to a stone and throw it into the Euphrates River.
Jeremiah 51:64 (NLT) - 64 Then say, ‘In this same way Babylon and her people will sink, never again to rise, because of the disasters I will bring upon her.’” This is the end of Jeremiah’s messages.
Jeremiah 52:1 (NLT) - 1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Jeremiah 52:2 (NLT) - 2 But Zedekiah did what was evil in the Lord's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.
Jeremiah 52:3 (NLT) - 3 These things happened because of the Lord's anger against the people of Jerusalem and Judah, until he finally banished them from his presence and sent them into exile. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:4 (NLT) - 4 So on January 15, during the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.
Jeremiah 52:5 (NLT) - 5 Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.
Jeremiah 52:6 (NLT)
6 By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.
6 By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.
Jeremiah 52:7 (NLT)
7 Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians, they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.
7 Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians, they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.
Jeremiah 52:12 (NLT)
On August 17 of that year, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuchadnezzar, the captain of the guard and an official of the Babylonial King, arrived in Jerusalem.
On August 17 of that year, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuchadnezzar, the captain of the guard and an official of the Babylonial King, arrived in Jerusalem.
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