2 Kings 24
:1
24:1
In his days
aNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 Kings 24
:2
24:2
And Jehovah sent against him bands of the
aChaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the children of Ammon; and He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which He spoke through his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24
:3
24:3
Surely it was at the command of Jehovah
that this came to pass against Judah, to
aremove them out of His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,
2 Kings 24
:4
24:4
And also for the
ainnocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and Jehovah would not forgive.
2 Kings 24
:5
24:5
aAnd 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?
NN.
The reign of Jehoiachin
2 Kings 24:6-9
2 Kings 24
:6
24:6
And aJehoiakim slept with his fathers. And
bJehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 24
:7
24:7
And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of
aBabylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
2 Kings 24
:8
24:8
aJehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was
bNehushta, the daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 24
:9
24:9
And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father had done.
OO.
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon besieging Jerusalem
2 Kings 24:10-16
2 Kings 24
:10
24:10
At that time the servants of
aNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
2 Kings 24
:11
24:11
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.
2 Kings 24
:12
24:12
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his eunuchs; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of
1his reign.
2 Kings 24
:13
24:13
And he brought out from there all the treasures of the house of Jehovah and the treasures of the king’s house. And he cut in pieces all the golden
avessels which Solomon the king of Israel had made in Jehovah’s temple, as Jehovah had said.
2 Kings 24
:14
24:14
And he carried away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
2 Kings 24
:15
24:15
And he carried
aJehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; and the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his eunuchs and the leading men of the land, he
bcarried away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 24
:16
24:16
And all the seven thousand men of valor and the one thousand craftsmen and smiths, all mighty men fit for war, even these the king of Babylon carried away into exile to Babylon.
PP.
The reign of Zedekiah
2 Kings 24:17-20
2 Kings 24
:17
24:17
Then the king of Babylon made
1Jehoiachin’s uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and he changed his name to
aZedekiah.
2 Kings 24
:18
24:18
1aZedekiah was twenty-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, from Libnah.
2 Kings 24
:19
24:19
And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2 Kings 24
:20
24:20
For it was through the anger of Jehovah
that this came to pass in Jerusalem and in Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah
arebelled against the king of Babylon.
