2 Kings 24
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Jehoiakim’s Rebellion and Death
1During # 2Ch 36:6-8 Jehoiakim’s reign, # 2Kg 23:26-27 Nebuchadnezzar # 2Kg 24:10-11; Dn 1:1 king of Babylon # 2Kg 20:14 attacked. # Jr 35:11 Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, and then he turned and rebelled against him. 2The Lord sent Chaldean, Aramean, # 2Kg 6:23 Moabite, # 2Kg 13:20 and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servants the prophets. # 2Kg 23:27 3Indeed, this happened to Judah at the Lord’s command to remove them from His sight. # 2Kg 18:25 It was because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had done, # 2Kg 23:26 4and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, # 2Kg 21:16 and the Lord would not forgive.
5The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. # 2Kg 23:28 6Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place. # Jr 22:18-19
7Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, # Jr 37:5-7 for the king of Babylon took everything that belonged to the king of Egypt, # Jr 46:2 from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River. # Gn 15:18; 1Kg 4:21; Is 27:12
Judah’s King Jehoiachin
8Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king and reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem. # 2Ch 36:9; Jr 22:24-30 9He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight as his father had done.
Deportations to Babylon
10At that time # 2Ch 36:10 the servants of Nebuchadnezzar # 2Kg 24:1; Dn 1:1 king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. 11Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it. 12Jehoiachin king of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the king of Babylon. # 2Kg 25:27; Jr 22:24-30
So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. 13He also carried off from there all the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made # 1Kg 7:48-50 for the Lord’s sanctuary, just as God had predicted. # 2Kg 20:16-18; Is 39:5-7 14Then he deported all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the fighting men, # Jr 24:1 10,000 captives, # Jr 52:28 and all the craftsmen and metalsmiths. # Jr 24:1; 29:2 Except for the poorest people of the land, # 2Kg 25:12 no one remained.
15Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. Also, he took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. # 2Ch 36:10; Jr 22:24-28 16The king of Babylon also brought captive into Babylon all 7,000 fighting men and 1,000 craftsmen and metalsmiths — all strong and fit for war. 17Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s # Lit his uncle, # = brother in 2Ch 36:10; Jr 37:1 king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah. # 1Ch 3:15; 2Ch 36:11; Jr 1:3
Judah’s King Zedekiah
18Zedekiah # Jr 27:1; 28:1 was 21 years old when he became king # 2Ch 36:11-12; Jr 52:1-3 and reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal # 2Kg 23:31 daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 19Zedekiah did what was evil in the Lord’s sight just as Jehoiakim had done. # 2Kg 23:37 20Because of the Lord’s anger, # Dt 4:26; 29:27; 2Kg 23:26 it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that He finally banished them from His presence. # 2Kg 13:23 Then, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. # 2Ch 36:13; Ezk 17:15
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Melaḵim Bĕt (2 Kings) 24
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1In his days Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Baḇel came up, and Yehoyaqim became his servant for three years. And he turned and rebelled against him.
2And יהוה sent against him raiding bands of Kasdim, and raiding bands of Aram, and raiding bands of Mo’aḇ, and raiding bands of the children of Ammon. And He sent them against Yehuḏah to destroy it, according to the word of יהוה which He had spoken by His servants the prophets.
3Only at the mouth of יהוה this came upon Yehuḏah, to remove them from His presence, because of the sins of Menashsheh, according to all that he did,
4and also because of the innocent blood that he shed. For he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood, which יהוה would not forgive.
5And the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehuḏah?
6So Yehoyaqim slept with his fathers. And Yehoyaḵin his son reigned in his place.
7And the sovereign of Mitsrayim did not come out of his land again, for the sovereign of Baḇel had taken all that belonged to the sovereign of Mitsrayim from the wadi of Mitsrayim to the River Euphrates.
8Yehoyaḵin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim three new moons. And his mother’s name was Neḥushta the daughter of Elnathan of Yerushalayim.
9And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to all that his father did.
10At that time the servants of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Baḇel came up against Yerushalayim, and the city was besieged.
11And Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Baḇel came against the city, as his servants were besieging it.
12And Yehoyaḵin sovereign of Yehuḏah, and his mother, and his servants, and his heads, and his eunuchs went out to the sovereign of Baḇel. And the sovereign of Baḇel, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.
13And he took from there all the treasures of the House of יהוה and the treasures of the sovereign’s house, and he cut in pieces all the objects of gold which Shelomoh sovereign of Yisra’ĕl had made in the Hĕḵal of יהוה, as יהוה had said.
14And he exiled all Yerushalayim, and all the officers and all the mighty brave men – ten thousand exiles – and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
15And he exiled Yehoyaḵin to Baḇel. And the sovereign’s mother, and the sovereign’s wives, and his eunuchs, and the leading men of the land he exiled from Yerushalayim to Baḇel.
16And all the mighty brave men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for battle, these the sovereign of Baḇel brought to Baḇel into exile.
17And the sovereign of Baḇel set up Mattanyah, Yehoyaḵin’s uncle, to reign in his place, and changed his name to Tsiḏqiyahu.
18Tsiḏqiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Ḥamutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu of Liḇnah.
19And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to all that Yehoyaqim did.
20For this took place in Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah because of the displeasure of יהוה, until He had cast them out from His presence. And Tsiḏqiyahu rebelled against the sovereign of Baḇel.
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