2KI-24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and

Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and

rebelled against hi

2KI-24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees,

and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands

of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy

it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his

servants the prophets.

2KI-24:3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon

Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of

Manasseh, according to all that he did;

2KI-24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he

filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not

pardon.

2KI-24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he

did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah?

2KI-24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his

son reigned in his stead.

2KI-24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of

his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of

Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of

Egypt.

2KI-24:8 Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his

mother's name [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of

Jerusalem.

2KI-24:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his father had done.

2KI-24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of

Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

2KI-24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the

city, and his servants did besiege it.

2KI-24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king

of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his

princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in

the eighth year of his reign.

2KI-24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the

house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and

cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of

Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

2KI-24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes,

 and all the mighty men of valour, [even] ten thousand captives,

and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the

poorest sort of the people of the land.

2KI-24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the

king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the

mighty of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from

Jerusalem to Babylon.

2KI-24:16 And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and

craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and]

apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to

Babylon.

2KI-24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's

brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

2KI-24:18 Zedekiah [was] twenty and 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 of Libnah.

2KI-24:19 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

2KI-24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in

Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his

presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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