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and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the L
ORD
, which he spake by
his servants the prophets.
3
Surely at the commandment of the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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?
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 L
ORD
, 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
L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
, as the L
ORD
had said.
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.
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 L
ORD
, according to all that Jehoiakim
had done.
20
For through the anger of the L
ORD
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.
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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth
day
of the month,
that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched
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