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2 Kings 24 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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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 against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3 - Surely at the [fn]command of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not forgive.
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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:6 - So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king of Egypt did not come 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 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:9 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all 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 - And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:13 - He carried out from there 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, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - So he led 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

Zedekiah Made King

(2Ch 36:11–14; Jer 52:1–3 )
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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:19 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: mouth
I.e. Jehoiachin's uncle
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