From the book of II Kings:
25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it: and they
built forts against it round about.
25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the
city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the
way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the
Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way
toward the plain.
25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in
the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
and they gave judgment upon him.
25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of
Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the
nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the
king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house
burnt he with fire.
25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the
guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
25:11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city, and the fugitives
that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be]
vinedressers and husbandmen.
25:13 And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the
bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees
break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
Babylon.
25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all
the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, [and] such things as [were] of gold, [in]
gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the captain of the guard took away.
25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which
Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these
vessels was without weight.
25:17 The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon
it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen
work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like
unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.