2 Kings 24

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 the Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, and bands of Aram, and bands of Moab, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets.

³Surely, at the command of the LORD this came upon Judah, to remove them from his presence, because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.

⁴Also the innocent blood that he had shed -- he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood -- and the Lord was not willing to forgive.

⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the annals of the days of the kings of Judah?

⁶Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

⁷And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land any more, 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 began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

⁹And he did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

¹⁰At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

¹¹Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and 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.

¹³He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut in pieces all the golden vessels that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had spoken.

¹⁴And he carried into exile all Jerusalem, and all the officials, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest of the people of the land.

¹⁵And he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his court officers and the leading 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, one thousand -- all of them mighty men fit for war -- the king of Babylon brought them into exile 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. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

¹⁹And he did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

²⁰For because of the anger of the Lord it came about in Jerusalem and in Judah, until he cast them out from before his face. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.