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24During Jehoiakim's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded the land of Judah. Jehoiakim surrendered and paid him tribute for three years but then rebelled.H3117H5019H4428H894H5927H3079H5650H7969H8141H7725H4775 2Then the LORD sent bands of Babylonian, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Judah to destroy it, just as the LORD had promised through his prophets.H3068H7971H1416H3778H1416H758H1416H4124H1416H1121H5983H7971H3063H6H1697H3068H1696H3027H5650H5030 3These disasters happened to Judah because of the LORD's command. He had decided to banish Judah from his presence because of the many sins of Manasseh,H6310H3068H3063H5493H6440H2403H4519H6213 4who had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood. The LORD would not forgive this.H5355H1818H8210H4390H3389H5355H1818H3068H14H5545 5The rest of the events in Jehoiakim's reign and all his deeds are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.H3499H1697H3079H6213H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3063 6When Jehoiakim died, his son Jehoiachin became the next king.H3079H7901H1H3078H1121H4427 7The king of Egypt did not venture out of his country after that, for the king of Babylon captured the entire area formerly claimed by Egypt—from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.H4428H4714H3318H3254H776H4428H894H3947H5158H4714H5104H6578H4428H4714 H8083H6240H8141H1121H4427H4427H3389H7969H2320H517H8034H5179H1323H494H3389 9Jehoiachin did what was evil in the LORD's sight, just as his father had done.H6213H7451H5869H3068H1H6213 10During Jehoiachin's reign, the officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against Jerusalem and besieged it.H6256H5650H5019H4428H894H5927H3389H5892H935H4692 11Nebuchadnezzar himself arrived at the city during the siege.H5019H4428H894H935H5892H5650H6696 12Then King Jehoiachin, along with the queen mother, his advisers, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.H3078H4428H3063H3318H4428H894H517H5650H8269H5631H4428H894H3947H8083H8141H4427 13As the LORD had said beforehand, Nebuchadnezzar carried away all the treasures from the LORD's Temple and the royal palace. He stripped away
all the gold objects that King Solomon of Israel had placed in the Temple.H3318H214H1004H3068H214H4428H1004H7112H3627H2091H8010H4428H3478H6213H1964H3068H3068H1696 14King Nebuchadnezzar took all of Jerusalem captive, including all the commanders and the best of the soldiers, craftsmen, and artisans—10,000 in all. Only the poorest people were left in the land.H1540H3389H8269H1368H2428H6235H505H1540H2796H4525H7604H2108H1803H5971H776 15Nebuchadnezzar led King Jehoiachin away as a captive to Babylon, along with the queen mother, his wives and officials, and all Jerusalem's elite.H1540H3078H894H4428H517H4428H802H5631H352H193H776H3212H1473H3389H894 16He also exiled 7,000 of the best troops and 1,000 craftsmen and artisans, all of whom were strong and fit for war.H582H2428H7651H505H2796H4525H505H1368H6213H4421H4428H894H935H1473H894 17Then the king of Babylon installed Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, as the next king, and he changed Mattaniah's name to Zedekiah.H4428H894H4983H1730H4427H5437H8034H6667 H6242H259H8141H1121H4427H4427H259H6240H8141H3389H517H8034H2537H1323H3414H3841 19But Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3079H6213 H3068H3389H3063H7993H6440H6667H4775H4428H894
25So on January 15, during the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.H8671H8141H4427H6224H2320H6218H2320H5019H4428H894H935H2428H3389H2583H1129H1785H5439 2Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.H5892H935H4692H6249H6240H8141H4428H6667 3By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.H8672H2320H7458H2388H5892H3899H5971H776 4Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians, they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king's garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.H5892H1234H582H4421H3915H1870H8179H2346H4428H1588H3778H5892H5439H3212H1870H6160 5But the Babylonian troops chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered.H2428H3778H7291H310H4428H5381H6160H3405H2428H6327 6They took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.H8610H4428H5927H4428H894H7247H1696H4941 7They made Zedekiah watch as they slaughtered his sons. Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon.H7819H1121H6667H5869H5786H5869H6667H631H5178H5178H935H894 , which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard and an official of the Babylonian king, arrived in Jerusalem.H2549H2320H7651H2320H8672H6240H8141H8141H4428H5019H4428H894H935H5018H7227H2876H5650H4428H894H3389 9He burned down the Temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.H8313H1004H3068H4428H1004H1004H3389H1419H1004H8313H784 10Then he supervised the entire Babylonian army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem on every side.H2428H3778H7227H2876H5422H2346H3389H5439 11Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, then took as exiles the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had declared their allegiance to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.H3499H5971H7604H5892H5307H5307H4428H894H3499H1995H5018H7227H2876H1540 12But the captain of the guard allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind in Judah to care for the vineyards and fields.H7227H2876H7604H1803H776H3755H3009H1461 13The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars in front of the LORD's Temple, the bronze water carts, and the great bronze basin called the Sea, and they carried all the bronze away to Babylon.H5982H5178H1004H3068H4350H5178H3220H1004H3068H3778H7665H5375H5178H894 14They also took all the ash buckets, shovels, lamp snuffers, dishes, and all the other bronze articles used for making sacrifices at the Temple.H5518H3257H4212H3709H3627H5178H8334H3947 15Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, also took the incense burners and basins, and all the other articles made of pure gold or silver.H4289H4219H2091H2091H3701H3701H7227H2876H3947 16The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea, and the water carts was too great to be measured. These things had been made for the LORD's Temple in the days of King Solomon.H8147H5982H259H3220H4350H8010H6213H1004H3068H5178H3627H3808H4948 17Each of the pillars was 27 feet tall. The bronze capital on top of each pillar was 7 1/2 feet As in parallel texts at 1 Kgs 7.16, 2 Chr 3.15, and Jer 52.22, all of which read 5 cubits [2.3 meters]; Hebrew reads 3 cubits, which is 4.5 feet or 1.4 meters high and was decorated with a network of bronze pomegranates all the way around.H6967H259H5982H8083H6240H520H3805H5178H6967H3805H7969H520H7639H7416H3805H5439H5178H8145H5982H7639 18Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took with him as prisoners Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three chief gatekeepers.H7227H2876H3947H8304H7218H3548H6846H4932H3548H7969H8104H5592 19And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the Judean army; five of the king's personal advisers; the army commander's chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment; and sixty other citizens.H5892H3947H259H5631H6496H582H4421H2568H582H7200H4428H6440H4672H5892H8269H5608H6635H6633H5971H776H8346H376H5971H776H4672H5892 20Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah.H5018H7227H2876H3947H3212H4428H894H7247 21And there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon had them all put to death. So the people of Judah were sent into exile from their land.H4428H894H5221H4191H7247H776H2574H3063H1540H127 H7604H776H3063H5019H4428H894H7604H1436H1121H296H1121H8227H6485 23When all the army commanders and their men learned that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they went to see him at Mizpah. These included Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite, and all their men.H8269H2428H582H8085H4428H894H1436H6485H935H1436H4709H3458H1121H5418H3110H1121H7143H8304H1121H8576H5200H2970H1121H4602H582 24Gedaliah vowed to them that the Babylonian officials meant them no harm. "Don't be afraid of them. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and all will go well for you," he promised.H1436H7650H582H559H3372H5650H3778H3427H776H5647H4428H894H3190 25But in midautumn of that year, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was of the royal family, went to Mizpah with ten men and killed Gedaliah. He also killed all the Judeans and Babylonians who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.H7637H2320H3458H1121H5418H1121H476H2233H4410H935H6235H582H5221H1436H4191H3064H3778H4709 26Then all the people of Judah, from the least to the greatest, as well as the army commanders, fled in panic to Egypt, for they were afraid of what the Babylonians would do to them.H5971H6996H1419H8269H2428H6965H935H4714H3372H6440H3778 Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year.H7651H7970H8141H1546H3078H4428H3063H8147H6240H2320H7651H6242H2320H192H4428H894H8141H4427H5375H7218H3078H4428H3063H1004H3608 28He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings in Babylon.H1696H2896H5414H3678H3678H4428H894 29He supplied Jehoiachin with new clothes to replace his prison garb and allowed him to dine in the king's presence for the rest of his life.H8132H3608H899H398H3899H8548H6440H3117H2416 30So the Babylonian king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived.H737H8548H737H5414H4428H3117H3117H1697H3117H3117H2416
Jehoiachin Rules in Judah
8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.H3078 all the gold objects that King Solomon of Israel had placed in the Temple.H3318 uncle, as the next king, and he changed Mattaniah's name to Zedekiah.H4428Zedekiah Rules in Judah
18Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.H6667The Fall of Jerusalem
20These things happened because of the LORD's anger against the people of Jerusalem and Judah, until he finally banished them from his presence and sent them into exile. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.H63925So on January 15
, during the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.H8671, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.H8672, they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king's garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.H5892 troops chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered.H2428The Temple Destroyed
8On August 14 of that year, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard and an official of the Babylonian king, arrived in Jerusalem.H2549 in the city.H8313 tall. The bronze capital on top of each pillar was 7 1/2 feet As in parallel texts at 1 Kgs 7.16, 2 Chr 3.15, and Jer 52.22, all of which read 5 cubits [2.3 meters]; Hebrew reads 3 cubits, which is 4.5 feet or 1.4 meters high and was decorated with a network of bronze pomegranates all the way around.H6967Gedaliah Governs in Judah
22Then King Nebuchadnezzar appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan as governor over the people he had left in Judah.H5971 son of the Maacathite, and all their men.H8269, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was of the royal family, went to Mizpah with ten men and killed Gedaliah. He also killed all the Judeans and Babylonians who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.H7637Hope for Israel’s Royal Line
27In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year.H7651
