1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and
made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. 2 Joahaz was
twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in
Jerusalem. 3 The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the
land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 The king of
Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his
name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim was Twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh his God. 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 8 Now the rest of the acts
of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in
him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah:
and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 9 Jehoiachin was eight years
old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. 10 At
the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon,
with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem. 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: 12 and he did
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he didn’t humble himself
before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Yahweh.
13 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by
God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to
Yahweh, the God of Israel. 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and
the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the
nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in
Jerusalem. 15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his
messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his
people, and on his dwelling-place: 16 but they mocked the messengers of
God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of
Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy. 17 Therefore
he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with
the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man
or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand. 18 All
the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the
house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these
he brought to Babylon. 19 They burnt the house of God, and broke down the
wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed
all the goodly vessels of it. 20 Those who had escaped from the sword
carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until
the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 to fulfill the word of Yahweh by
the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: for
as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh
by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit
of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 23 Thus says Cyrus
king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven,
given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is
in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be
with him, and let him go up.
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