The Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, and carried the bronze to Babylon — Nebuzaradan systematically strips the temple of its bronze apparatus: the pillars (עַמּוּדֵי־הַנְּחֹשֶׁת, *ammudei ha-nechoshet*), stands, and sea. The bronze, melted down, becomes raw material for Babylon. The stripping of these ritual objects symbolizes the temple's total desecration and the end of temple worship.

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