1In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
2And Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of the Chaldeans, and raiding bands of Aram, and raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the sons of Ammon; he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets.
3Surely it was at the command of Yahweh that this came upon Judah, to remove them from his presence, because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,
4and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and Yahweh was not willing to forgive.
5Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the annals of the kings of Judah?
6And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
7And the king of Egypt did not come out again from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Wadi of Egypt to the River Euphrates.
8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.
9And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.
10At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
11And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.
12And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his officials and his court officers; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13And he brought out from there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh and the treasures of the king’s house, and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had spoken.
14And he exiled all Jerusalem, and all the officials, and all the mighty men of valor—ten thousand exiles—and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained except the poorest of the people of the land.
15And he exiled Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his court officers, and the mighty men of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16And all the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, a thousand, all of them mighty men, makers of war—the king of Babylon brought them as exiles to Babylon.
17And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.
19And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
20For it was because of the anger of Yahweh that this came about in Jerusalem and in Judah, until he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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