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1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he
turned and rebelled against him.
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.
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;
4 And also for the innocent blood that he
shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
pardon.
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?
6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
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.
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.
9 And he did that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
10 At that time the servants of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was
besieged.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah
his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
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.
19 And he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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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