2 Kings 24

In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came up, and Jehoiakim was a servant to him {for} three years. Then he returned and rebelled against him.

And God sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans and raiding bands of Aram and raiding bands of Moab and raiding bands of the sons of Ammon. And he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of God that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets. \*

Surely at the mouth of God it was against Judah, to remove {them} away from his face for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

and also {for} the innocent blood that he poured out, for he had filled Jerusalem {with} innocent blood, and God was not willing to forgive. \*

Now the rest of the matters of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah?

And Jehoiakim lay down with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. \*

And the king of Egypt did not resume again to go out from his land, because the king of Babylon took all that had been to the king of Egypt from the wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River. \*

Jehoiachin {was} a son of 18 years when he reigned, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And the name of his mother {was} Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.

And he did evil in the eyes of God, like all that his father had done. \*

At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came up {to} Jerusalem, and the city entered into siege.

And Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came to the city while his servants were besieging against it.

And Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his commanders and his eunuchs. And the king of Babylon took him in the year of eight to his reigning. \*

And he brought out from there all of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the house of the king, and he cut off all of the furnishings of gold that Solomon, the king of Israel, had made for the temple of God, just as God had spoken.

And he exiled all of Jerusalem and all of the commanders and all of the mighty of valor, exiling 10,000 and every craftsman and smith. One was not left except the poor of the people of the land. \*

And he exiled Jehoiachin to Babylon. And the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the leaders of the land he led {into} exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

and all of the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsman and the smith, 1,000, the whole, the mighty, the makers of war. And the king of Babylon brought them {into} exile to Babylon.

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his uncle, king in his place, and he changed his name {to} Zedekiah. \*

Zedekiah {was} a son of 21 years when he reigned, and he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother {was} Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

And he did evil in the eyes of God, like all that Jehoiakim had done.

For because of the nose of God it was against Jerusalem and against Judah, until he cast them away from his face. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. \*