12:024:003 Surely at the commandment of the lord
came this upon Judah, to
remove
them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
according
to all that he did;
12:024:004 And also for the innocent blood that he
shed: for he filled
Jerusalem
with innocent blood; which the lord would not
pardon.
12:024:005 Now the rest 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?
12:024:006 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers:
and Jehoiachin his son
reigned
in his stead.
12:024:007 And the king of Egypt came not again any
more out of his land:
for
the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt
unto
the
river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
12:024:008 Jehoiachin was eighteen years 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.
12:024:009 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the lord,
according
to all that his father had done.
12:024:010 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon
came
up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
12:024:011 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
against the city, and
his
servants did besiege it.
12:024:012 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out
to the king of
Babylon,
he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes,
and his officers: and the king of Babylon took
him in
the
eighth year of his reign.
12:024:013 And he carried out thence all the treasures
of the house of
the
lord, and the treasures of the king’s house,
and cut in
pieces
all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
had
made in the temple of the lord, as the lord
had said.
12:024:014 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and
all the princes, and
all
the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives,
and
all
the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save
the poorest
sort
of the people of the land.
12:024:015 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon,
and the king’s
mother,
and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the
mighty
of
the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem
to
Babylon.
12:024:016 And all the men of might, even seven thousand,
and craftsmen
and
smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for
war,
even
them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
12:024:017 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah
his father’s brother
king
in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.


