12_2KI_24_01 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
12_2KI_24_02 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, 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 the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
12_2KI_24_03 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
12_2KI_24_04 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
12_2KI_24_05 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?
12_2KI_24_06 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
12_2KI_24_07 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.
12_2KI_24_08 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.
12_2KI_24_09 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
12_2KI_24_10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
12_2KI_24_11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12_2KI_24_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.
12_2KI_24_13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, 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 LORD, as the LORD had said.
12_2KI_24_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.
12_2KI_24_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.
12_2KI_24_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.
12_2KI_24_17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
12_2KI_24_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.
12_2KI_24_19 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
12_2KI_24_20 For through the anger of the LORD 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.