2Ki 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim
became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2Ki 24:2 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.
2Ki 24:3 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;
2Ki 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem
with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.
2Ki 24:5 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?
2Ki 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in
his stead.
2Ki 24:7 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.
2Ki 24:8 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.
2Ki 24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to
all that his father had done.
2Ki 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2Ki 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his
servants did besiege it.
2Ki 24:12 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.
2Ki 24:13 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.
2Ki 24:14 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.
2Ki 24:15 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.
2Ki 24:16 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.
2Ki 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in
his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2Ki 24:18 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.
2Ki 24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to
all that Jehoiakim had done.
2Ki 24:20 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.