ught thee under us."
And when he had used these words to Zedekiah, he commanded his sons and
his friends to be slain, while Zedekiah and the rest of the captains
looked on; after which he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him,
and carried him to Babylon. And these things happened to him, [13] as
Jeremiah and Ezekiel had foretold to him, that he should be caught,
and brought before the king of Babylon, and should speak to him face
to face, and should see his eyes with his own eyes; and thus far did
Jeremiah prophesy. But he was also made blind, and brought to Babylon,
but did not see it, according to the prediction of Ezekiel.

3. We have said thus much, because it was sufficient to show the nature
of God to such as are ignorant of it, that it is various, and acts many
different ways, and that all events happen after a regular manner, in
their proper season, and that it foretells what must come to pass. It
is also sufficient to show the ignorance and incredulity of men, whereby
they are not permitted to foresee any thing that is future, and are,
without any guard, exposed to calamities, so that it is impossible for
them to avoid the experience of those calamities.

4. And after this manner have the kings of David's race ended their
lives, being in number twenty-one, until the last king, who all together
reigned five hundred and fourteen years, and six months, and ten days;
of whom Saul, who was their first king, retained the government twenty
years, though he was not of the same tribe with the rest.

5. And now it was that the king of Babylon sent Nebuzaradan, the general
of his army, to Jerusalem, to pillage the temple, who had it also in
command to burn it and the royal palace, and to lay the city even with
the ground, and to transplant the people into Babylon. Accordingly, he
came to Jerusalem in the eleventh year of king Zedekiah, and pillaged
the temple, and carried out the vessels of God, both gold and silver,
and particularly that large laver which Solomon dedicated, as also the
pillars of brass, and their chapiters, with the golden tables and the
candlesticks; and when he had carried these off, he set fire to the
temple in the fifth month, the first day of the month, in the
eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, and in the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadnezzar: he also burnt the palace, and overthrew the city. Now
the temple was burnt four hundred and seventy years, six months, and ten
days after it was buil