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days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he
turned and rebelled against him.
02 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.
03 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;
04 And also for the innocent blood that he shed:
for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood;
which the Lord would not pardon.
05 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?
06 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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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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