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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Josiah&#8217;s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Josiah&#8217;s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother&#8217;s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his predecessors had done. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:33 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and a talent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:33 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim&#8217;s name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.23.35"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother&#8217;s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2KI.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And he did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his predecessors had done.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">24</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">During Jehoiakim&#8217;s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. But then he turned against Nebuchadnezzar and rebelled. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent Babylonian,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldean</span></span></span><span class="content"> Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> proclaimed by his servants the prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely these things happened to Judah according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was not willing to forgive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Jehoiakim&#8217;s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jehoiakim rested with his ancestors. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoiachin King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother&#8217;s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father had done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.24.12"><span class="content">In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans&#8212;a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king&#8217;s mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin&#8217;s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zedekiah King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother&#8217;s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as Jehoiakim had done. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">It was because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fall of Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.24.20"><span class="content">Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">25</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So in the ninth year of Zedekiah&#8217;s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">By the ninth day of the fourth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:3 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">fourth</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king&#8217;s garden, though the Babylonians</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 13, 25 and 26</span></span></span><span class="content"> were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Jordan Valley</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">but the Babylonian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldean</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 10 and 24</span></span></span><span class="content"> army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and he was captured.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.25.6"><span class="content">He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where sentence was pronounced on him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He set fire to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and they carried the bronze to Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls&#8212;all that were made of pure gold or silver.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, was more than could be weighed. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Each pillar was eighteen cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 27 feet or about 8.1 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 4 1/2 feet or about 1.4 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.25.21"><span class="content">So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.25.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah&#8212;Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maakathite, and their men. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. &#8220;Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.25.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together with the army officers, fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoiachin Released</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.25.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. He did this on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king&#8217;s table. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.</span></span></div>
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