2 Kings 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 Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, 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 Jehovah, which he spake by
his servants the prophets.
3 Surely at the commandment of Jehovah 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: and Jehovah 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 brook 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 Jehovah, according to all that
his father had done.
10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to
Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants
were besieging 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 Jehovah, 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 Jehovah, as Jehovah 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 the 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 chief men of the land, carried he into
captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the
smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of
Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king
is 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 Jehovah, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done.
20 For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah,
until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the
king of Babylon.