Now then the first covenant also had ordinances of service, and its  ¹sanctuary was of this world.

For a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which were the lampstand and the table and the loaves that were set forth, which is called the Holy Place;

And after the second veil, a tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies,

 ¹Having a golden  ²altar and the ark of the covenant covered about everywhere with gold, in which were the golden  ³pot that had the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tablets of the covenant,

And above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the  ¹propitiation place, concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail.

Now these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle the priests enter continually, accomplishing their worship;

But into the second, only the high priest enters, once a year and not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the  ¹sins of ignorance of the people,

The Holy Spirit thus making this clear, that the  ¹way of the Holy of Holies has not yet been manifested while the first tabernacle still has its standing,

Which is a  ¹figure for the present time. According to this tabernacle both  ²gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are unable to perfect, according to conscience, him who worships,

Consisting only of foods and drinks and various  ¹washings, being ordinances of the flesh, imposed until the time of  ²setting things right.

But Christ, having come as a High Priest of  ¹the good things that have come into being, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,

And not through the blood of goats and calves but through His own blood, entered once for all into the Holy of Holies,  ¹obtaining an eternal  ²redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who are  ¹defiled sanctify to the purity of the flesh,

How much more will the  ¹blood of Christ, who through the  ²eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our  ³conscience from  ⁴dead works to serve the  ⁵living God?

And because of this He is the Mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the  ¹transgressions under the first covenant, those who have been called might receive the  ²promise of the  ³eternal inheritance.

For where there is a  ¹testament, the death of him who made the testament must of necessity be established.

For a  ¹testament is confirmed  ²in the case of the dead, since it never has force when he who made the testament is living.

Hence neither was the first covenant  ¹initiated without blood;

For when every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll of the covenant itself and all the people,

Saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded to you.”

And both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.

And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and  ¹without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

It was necessary therefore for the examples of the things in the heavens to be purified by these, but the  ¹heavenly things themselves, by  ²better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter into a  ¹holy place made by hands, a  ²figure of the true, but into heaven itself, to appear now before the face of God for us;

Nor in order that He might offer Himself often, just as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies year by year by the blood of other creatures;

Since then He would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the  ¹consummation of the ages He has been manifested for the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.

And inasmuch as it is  ¹reserved for men to die  ²once, and after this comes judgment,

So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time to those who eagerly await Him,  ¹apart from sin, unto  ²salvation.

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the image itself of the things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, perfect those who draw near.

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, because those worshipping, having once been purified, would have no longer had the consciousness of sins?

But in those sacrifices there is a bringing to mind of sins year by year;

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, coming into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You did not delight.

Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the  ¹roll of the book it is written concerning Me) to do Your  ²will, O God.”

Saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You did not desire nor delight in” (which are offered according to the law),

He then has said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the  ¹first that He may establish the second,

By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ  ¹once for all.

And every priest  ¹stands daily, ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never remove sins;

But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins,  ¹sat down  ²forever on the right hand of God,

Henceforth waiting until His enemies are made the footstool for His feet.

For by one offering He has  ¹perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said,

“This is the covenant which I will covenant with them after those days, says the Lord: I will impart My laws upon their hearts, and upon their mind I will inscribe them,”

He then says, “And their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall by no means remember anymore.”

Now where forgiveness of these is, there is no longer an offering for sin.

 ¹Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

For it was through the anger of Jehovah that this came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his whole army, against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe within the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled; and they went out from the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were all around the city; and they went by the way toward the  ¹Arabah.

And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

And they seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgments on him.

Then the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah at Riblah.

And he  ¹put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze fetters. And the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (this was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

And he burned the house of Jehovah and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every large house he burned with fire.

And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the bodyguard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

And the poor of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried away into exile.

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and field workers.

And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze  ¹pillars, which were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the bronze sea, which were in the house of Jehovah. And they carried all their bronze to Babylon.

And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the cups and all the bronze vessels with which they ministered.

And the captain of the bodyguard took away the dishes and the firepans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the cups and the bowls, that which was of gold: for its gold, and that which was of silver, for its silver.

As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen, which were under the bases, which King Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference, and it was four fingers in thickness; it was hollow.

And a bronze capital was upon it; and the height of each capital was five cubits; and the network and pomegranates were upon the capital all around, all of bronze; and the second pillar and the pomegranates were like these.

And there were ninety-six pomegranates toward the open air; all the pomegranates on the network were a hundred all around.

And the captain of the bodyguard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three doorkeepers.

And from the city he took one eunuch, who was overseer of the men of war, and seven men from the king's inner circle who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

And Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon in Riblah.

And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath; so Judah was carried away into exile out of its land.

These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two persons from Jerusalem;

In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried from the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons into exile. There were four thousand six hundred persons in all.

And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach the king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, released Jehoiachin the king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

And he spoke with him kindly and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

And Jehoiachin changed his prison garments and ate his food before him continually all the days of his life.

And for his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day, all the days of his life until the day of his death.