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Then the
people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead
in Jerusalem.
02 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned three months in
Jerusalem.
03 And the king of Egypt put him down at
Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred
talents of silver and a talent of gold.
04 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his
name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his
brother, and carried him to Egypt.
05 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the
sight of the Lord his God.
06 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him
to Babylon.
07 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of
the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in
his temple at Babylon.
08 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he did, and that which was
found in him, behold, they are written in the
book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
09 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned three months and ten
days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil
in the sight of the Lord.
10 And when the year was expired, king
Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon,
with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord,
and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem.
11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem.
12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before
Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of
the Lord.
13 And he also rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God:
but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart
from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
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14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the
people, transgressed very much after all the
abominations of the heathen; and polluted the
house of the Lord which he had hallowed in
Jerusalem.
15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them
by his messengers, rising up betimes, and
sending; because he had compassion on his people,
and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and
despised his words, and misused his prophets,
until the wrath of the Lord arose against his
people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the
Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword
in the house of their sanctuary, and had no
compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or
him that stooped for age: he gave them all into
his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great
and small, and the treasures of the house of the
Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his
princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake
down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the
palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the
goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword
carried he away to Babylon; where they were
servants to him and his sons until the reign of
the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her
sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she
kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of
Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred
up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he
made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and put it also in writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the
kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven
given me; and he hath charged me to build him an
house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is
there among you of all his people? The Lord his
God be with him, and let him go up.
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