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Chapter 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. |
| 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. |
| 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; |
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4 | And also for the innocent blood that he
shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
pardon. |
| 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?
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| 6 | So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in
his stead. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father had done. |
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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. |
| 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 valor, 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. |
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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. |
