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II 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 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.
3. 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;
4. And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with
innocent blood; which the Lord 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 Lord, 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 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.
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 Lord, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done.
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.
II Kings 25
1. 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 against it; and they built forts
against it round about.
2. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city,
and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4. And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way
of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees
were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
5. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the
plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
6. So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
and they gave judgment upon him.
7. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of
Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8. And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the
nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses
of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
10. And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard,
brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11. Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives
that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
12. But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers
and husbandmen.
13. And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases,
and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in
pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14. And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the
vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15. And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold,
and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
16. The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house
of the Lord; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it
was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work,
and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto
these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
18. And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah
the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
19. And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and
five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city,
and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and
threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
20. And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the
king of Babylon to Riblah:
21. And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
22. And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
23. And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the
king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah
the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite,
they and their men.
24. And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not
to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote
Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at
Mizpah.
26. And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies,
arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
27. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of
Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day
of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to
reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
28. And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings
that were with him in Babylon;
29. And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him
all the days of his life.
30. And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily
rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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