You took my silver and gold. You carried off my finest treasures to your temples.

你们既然夺取我的金银，又将我可爱的宝物带入你们宫殿，

你们夺取我的金银，把我珍贵的宝物带入你们的庙宇，

你们夺取我的金银，把我珍贵的宝物带入你们的庙宇，

你们夺去我的金银，抢走我的珍宝，拿去放在你们的庙中，

你们拿去了我的金银，又把我的珍宝带进了你们的庙宇。

你們既然奪取我的金銀，又將我可愛的寶物帶入你們宮殿，

你們奪取我的金銀，把我珍貴的寶物帶入你們的廟宇，

你們奪取我的金銀，把我珍貴的寶物帶入你們的廟宇，

你們奪去我的金銀，搶走我的珍寶，拿去放在你們的廟中，

你們拿去了我的金銀，又把我的珍寶帶進了你們的廟宇。

我的金銀你們既拿取了，我的珍貴寶物你們既帶進了你們的宮殿，

爾既刦我金銀、以我珍寶、攜入爾宮、

爾刧我金銀、奪我珍器、入爾宮殿、

爾奪我金銀、以我可悅之寶物、攜入爾宮、

For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.

For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.

You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples.

For you took my silver and gold and carried my finest treasures to your temples.

Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,

Because you have taken My silver and My gold, And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.

Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

For you took My silver and gold and carried My finest treasures to your temples.

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

The Lord stirred up the anger of the Philistines against Jehoram. He also stirred up the anger of the Arabs. They lived near the people of Cush.The Philistines and Arabs attacked Judah. They went in and carried off all the goods they found in the king’s palace. They also took his sons and wives. The only son he had left was Ahaziah. He was the youngest son.

But Joash, the king of Judah, didn’t want to go to war. So he took all the sacred objects. They had been set apart to the Lord by the kings who had ruled over Judah before him. Those kings were Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah. Joash took the gifts he himself had set apart. He took all the gold that was among the temple treasures. He also took all the gold from the royal palace. He sent all those things to Hazael, the king of Aram. Then Hazael pulled his army back from Jerusalem.

The Babylonian army destroyed the Lord’ s temple. They broke the bronze pillars into pieces. They broke up the bronze stands that could be moved around. And they broke up the huge bronze bowl. Then they carried the bronze away to Babylon.They also took away the pots, shovels, wick cutters and dishes. They took away all the bronze objects used for any purpose in the temple.The commander of the royal guard took away the shallow cups for burning incense. He took away the sprinkling bowls. So he took away everything made out of pure gold or silver.The bronze was more than anyone could weigh. It included the bronze from the two pillars, the huge bowl and the stands. Solomon had made all those things for the Lord’ s temple.Each pillar was 27 feet high. The bronze top of one pillar was four and a half feet high. It was decorated with a set of bronze chains and pomegranates all around it. The other pillar was just like it. It also had a set of chains.

While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to his servants. He commanded them to bring in some gold and silver cups. They were the cups his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem. Belshazzar had them brought in so everyone could drink from them. That included the king himself, his nobles, his wives and his concubines.So the servants brought in the gold cups. The cups had been taken from God’s temple in Jerusalem. The king and his nobles drank from them. So did his wives and concubines.

“ I have stirred up you kings of the Medes. So sharpen your arrows! Get your shields! I plan to destroy Babylon. I will pay the Babylonians back. They have destroyed my temple.

In place of them, he will worship a god of war. He will honor a god his people have not known before. He will give gold and silver to that god. He will bring jewels and expensive gifts to it.

They carried the ark into the temple of their god Dagon. They set it down beside the statue of Dagon.The people of Ashdod got up early the next day. They saw the statue of Dagon. There it was, lying on the ground! It had fallen on its face in front of the ark of the Lord. So they picked up the statue of Dagon. They put it back in its place.But the following morning when they got up, they saw the statue of Dagon. There it was, lying on the ground again! It had fallen on its face in front of the ark of the Lord. Its head and hands had been broken off. Only the body of the statue was left. Its head and hands were lying in the doorway of the temple.That’s why to this day no one steps on the bottom part of the doorway of Dagon’s temple at Ashdod. Not even the priests of Dagon step there.

Listen to those who have escaped. Listen to those who have returned from Babylon. They are announcing in Zion how I have paid Babylon back. I have paid it back for destroying my temple.

So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the Lord’ s temple. He also gave him all the silver among the treasures in the royal palace.Hezekiah, the king of Judah, had covered the doors and doorposts of the Lord’ s temple with gold. But now he had to strip it off. He had to give it to the king of Assyria.

Ahaz took the silver and gold that were in the Lord’ s temple. He also took the silver and gold that were among the treasures in the royal palace. He sent all of it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the Lord’ s temple. He also removed the treasures from the royal palace. He cut up the gold objects that Solomon, the king of Israel, had made for the temple. That’s what the Lord had announced would happen.