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2 Kings 24 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Babylon Controls Jehoiakim

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 -

In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - The LORD sent marauding bands of Chaldeans, Arameans (Syrians), Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim. And He sent them against Judah to destroy it, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3 - Surely this came on Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of [King] Manasseh, in accordance with everything that he had done,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not pardon it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:5 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and everything that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Jehoiachin Reigns

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:6 - So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers [in death], and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, because the [fn]king of Babylon had taken everything that belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
(2Ch 36:9, 10 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 -

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned [only] three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:9 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with everything that his father had done.

Deportation to Babylon

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 -

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin king of Judah surrendered to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his [palace] officials. So the king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his [own] reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:13 - He carried out of there (Jerusalem) all the treasures of the house (temple) of the LORD, and the treasures of the house (palace) of the king, and cut in pieces all the articles of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - He led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the brave men, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 -

Nebuchadnezzar led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also he took the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials and the leading men of the land [including Ezekiel] as exiles from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - And the king of Babylon brought as exiles to Babylon all the brave men, seven thousand [of them], and the craftsmen and the smiths, a thousand [of them], all strong and fit for war.

Zedekiah Made King

(2Ch 36:11–14; Jer 52:1–3 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:19 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with everything that Jehoiakim had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - Because of the anger of the LORD these things happened in Jerusalem and Judah, and it [finally] came to the point that He cast them from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
AMP Footnotes
When Nebuchadnezzar was crown prince of Babylon he led his father’s army and defeated Egypt at the battle of Carchemish (Jer 46:2).
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