2Ch 36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and
made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
2Ch 36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2Ch 36:3 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.
2Ch 36:4 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.
2Ch 36:5 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.
2Ch 36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in
fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
2Ch 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2Ch 36:8 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.
2Ch 36:9 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.
2Ch 36:10 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.
2Ch 36:11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2Ch 36:12 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.
2Ch 36:13 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.
2Ch 36:14 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.
2Ch 36:15 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:
2Ch 36:16 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.
2Ch 36:17 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.
2Ch 36:18 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.
2Ch 36:19 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.
2Ch 36:20 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:
2Ch 36:21 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.
2Ch 36:22 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,
2Ch 36:23 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.