assed it about: but the thickness
thereof was four fingers, and it was hollow within.

52:22. And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height of one
chapiter was five cubits: and network, and pomegranates were upon the
chapiters round about, all of brass. The same of the second pillar, and
the pomegranates.

52:23. And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down: and the
pomegranates being a hundred in all, were compassed with network.

52:24. And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the
second priest, and the three keepers of the entry.

52:25. He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief over the
men of war: and seven men of them that were near the king's person, that
were found in the city: and a scribe, an officer of the army who
exercised the young soldiers: and threescore men of the people of the
land, that were found in the midst of the city.

52:26. And Nabuzardan the general took them, and brought them to the
king of Babylon, to Reblatha.

52:27. And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in
Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out of
his land.

52:28. This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in
the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.

52:29. In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred and
thirty-two souls from Jerusalem.

52:30. In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan the
general carried away of the Jews seven hundred and forty five souls. So
all the souls were four thousand six hundred.

52:31. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the five and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the
first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda, and
brought him forth out of prison.

52:32. And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above the
thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

52:33. And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread before him
always all the days of his life.

52:34. And for his diet a continual provision was allowed him by the
king of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all
the days of his life.

THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS

In these JEREMIAS laments in a most pathetical manner the miseries of
his people, and the destruction of JERUSALEM and the temp