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Jeremiah 52
An account of the fall of Jerusalem: Zedekiah's rebellion, the siege, his capture and blinding at Riblah, the burning of the temple and the city, the bronze pillars and Sea broken up and carried away, the numbers exiled, and Jehoiachin's release in Babylon.
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See it in the Labs
- Solomon's TempleJachin · Solomon's TempleOpen
- Solomon's TempleBoaz · Solomon's TempleOpen
- Solomon's TempleThe ten bronze stands and basins · Solomon's TempleOpen
- Solomon's TempleThe capitals · Solomon's TempleOpen
- Solomon's TempleThe bronze Sea · Solomon's TempleOpen
- Jerusalem Through the AgesThe destruction of 586 BC · Jerusalem Through the AgesOpen
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How sure can we be?
- Textually stated
Each pillar was 18 cubits high and 12 cubits round, hollow, with metal four fingers thick.
1 Kings 7:15 and Jeremiah 52:21. A circumference of 12 cubits gives a diameter of about 3.8 cubits.
- Textually stated
The Babylonians broke up the pillars, the stands and the Sea and took the bronze to Babylon.
Stated in 2 Kings 25:13 and Jeremiah 52:17.
- Textually stated
Each capital was 5 cubits high.
Stated in 1 Kings 7:16, Jeremiah 52:22 and 2 Chronicles 3:15. 2 Kings 25:17 gives 3 cubits, perhaps the ornamented part only.
- Textually stated
Two rows of pomegranates ran round each capital: 200 each, 400 for both.
1 Kings 7:20, 42. Jeremiah 52:23 counts 96 'on a side' and 100 in all round the network, perhaps a different way of counting one row.
- Strongly supported
Kings and Jeremiah describe the burning of the Temple, the palace and every great house, and the walls broken down.