¶ In his days¹ Nebuchadnezzar² king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

And the LORD³ 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, according⁴ to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his⁵ servants the prophets.

Surely⁶ at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them⁷ out of his sight, for the sins⁸ of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

And also for the innocent⁹ blood that he shed: for he filled¹⁰ Jerusalem with innocent blood; which¹¹ the LORD would not pardon.

Now the rest¹² 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?

So Jehoiakim slept¹³ with his fathers: and Jehoiachin¹⁴ his son reigned in his stead.

And the king¹⁵ of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river¹⁶ of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

¶ Jehoiachin¹⁷ was eighteen years²¹ 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.

And he did that which was evil²² in the sight of the LORD, according²³ to all that his father had done.

¶ At that time²⁴ the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged²⁵.

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.

And Jehoiachin²⁶ the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers²⁷: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

And he carried²⁹ out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut³⁰ in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon³¹ king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

And he carried away all³² Jerusalem³³, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen³⁴ and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort³⁵ of the people of the land.

And he carried³⁶ away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers³⁷, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

And all the men of might, even seven thousand³⁸, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

And the king³⁹ of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother⁴⁰ king in his stead, and changed⁴¹ his name to Zedekiah.

Zedekiah⁴² was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal⁴³, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

And he did⁴⁴ that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

¶ For through⁴⁵ the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah⁴⁶ rebelled against the king of Babylon.