with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate, ¹ 

Do you make it leap ¹  like a locust? Its proud neighing ²  is terrifying!

They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession and enter the royal palace. ¹ 

Majestic splendor emanates from him; ¹  his sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful. ² 

Your shoots are a royal garden ¹  full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard,

Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had issued orders concerning Jeremiah. He had passed them on through Nebuzaradan, the captain of his royal guard, ¹ 

So the king assigned them a daily ration ¹  from his royal delicacies ²  and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained ³  for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. ⁴ 

The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.

The sluice gates ¹  are opened; the royal palace is deluged ²  and dissolves. ³ 

Thus ¹  I grant ²  to you a kingdom, ³  just as my Father granted to me,

concerning his Son who was a descendant ¹  of David with reference to the flesh, ² 

For here is the testimony about him: ¹  “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” ² 

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law ¹  on a scroll ²  given to him by the Levitical priests.

Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, ¹  named Genubath. Tahpenes raised ²  him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons.

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames. ¹ 

He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. ¹  Then he went back to Samaria. ²  (

The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease ¹  until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ²  while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were ¹  in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute ²  to the king of Assyria.

They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.

He carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials.