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2 Kings 24 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jehoiakim Rebels Against Nebuchadnezzar

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - And Yahweh sent against him marauding bands of Chaldeans, marauding bands of Arameans, marauding bands of Moabites, and marauding bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh which He had spoken by the hand of His slaves the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3 - Surely at the [fn]command of Yahweh it came upon Judah, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and Yahweh was not willing to pardon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:5 - 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?

Jehoiachin Reigns over Judah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:6 - So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt did not go out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
(2Ch 36:9, 10 )

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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:9 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.

Judah Exiled to Babylon

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Then Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his commanders and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:13 - And he brought out from there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, just as Yahweh had spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - Then he took away into exile all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None was left except the poorest people of the land.

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So he took Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - Now all the valiant men, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all mighty men who could wage war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

Zedekiah Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 36:11–14; Jer 52:1–3 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - Then the king of Babylon made [fn]his uncle Mattaniah 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 eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:19 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For through the anger of Yahweh this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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