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2 Kings 24 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 - In his days went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and Joakim became his servant three years; and then he turned and revolted from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - And the Lord sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of Syria, and the bands of Moab, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them into the land of Juda to prevail against it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3 - Moreover it was [fn]the purpose of the Lord concerning Juda, to remove [fn]them from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses, according to all that he did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not [fn]pardon it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:5 - And the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:6 - And Joakim slept with his fathers: and Joachim his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt came no more out of his land: for the king of Babylon took away all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the river of Egypt as far as the river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 - [fn]Eighteen years old was Joachim when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Nestha, daughter of Ellanastham, of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:9 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and the city [fn]was besieged.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - And Joachim king of Juda came forth to the king of Babylon, he and his servants, and his mother, and his princes, and his eunuchs; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:13 - And he brought forth thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut up all the golden vessels which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - And he carried away the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all the captains, and the mighty men, taking captive ten thousand [fn]prisoners, and every artificer and [fn]smith: and only the poor of the land were left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried Joachim away to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and he carried away the mighty men of the land into [fn]captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and one thousand artificers and smiths: all were mighty men fit for war; and the king of Babylon carried them captive to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - And the king of Babylon made [fn]Batthanias his son king in his stead, and called his name Sedekias.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 - [fn]Twenty and one years old was Sedekias when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Amital, daughter of Jeremias.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:19 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Joachim did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For it was [fn]according to the Lord's anger against Jerusalem and on Juda, until he cast them out of his presence, that Sedekias revolted against the king of Babylon.
BES Footnotes
Gr. on the mind.
Gr. him.
Gr. be propitiated.
Gr. Joachim a son of 18 years in his reigning.
Gr. came into seige.
Lit. captivities.
Lit. shutter-up.
Gr. emigration.
A. V. Mattanaiah.
Gr. a son of 21 years, Sedekias.
Lit. it was in the Lord's mind to bring evil upon.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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