| 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; |
| 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. |
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9 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
