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1During Jehoiakim’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, and then he turned and rebelled against him.[#24:1–6 2Ch 36:6–8; #24:1 2Kg 23:26–27; #24:1 2Kg 24:10–11; Dn 1:1; #24:1 2Kg 20:14; #24:1 Jr 35:11]
2The Lord sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord he had spoken through his servants the prophets.[#24:2 2Kg 6:23; #24:2 2Kg 13:20; #24:2 2Kg 23:27]
3Indeed, this happened to Judah at the Lord ’s command to remove them from his presence. It was because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had done,[#24:3 2Kg 18:25; #24:3 2Kg 23:26]
4and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.[#24:4 2Kg 21:16]
5The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.[#24:5 2Kg 23:28]
6Jehoiakim rested with his ancestors, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.[#24:5–6 Jr 22:18–19]
7Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, for the king of Babylon took everything that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates.[#24:7 Jr 37:5–7; #24:7 Jr 46:2; #24:7 Gn 15:18; 1Kg 4:21; Is 27:12]
8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.[#24:8–9 2Ch 36:9; Jr 22:24–30]
9He did what was evil in the Lord ’s sight just as his father had done.
10At that time the servants of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.[#24:10–17 2Ch 36:10; #24:10 2Kg 24:1; Dn 1:1]
11King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
12King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the king of Babylon.[#24:12 Or eunuchs; #24:12 2Kg 25:27; Jr 22:24–30]
So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
13He also carried off from there all the treasures of the Lord ’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that King Solomon of Israel had made for the Lord ’s sanctuary, just as the Lord had predicted.[#24:13 1Kg 7:48–50; #24:13 2Kg 20:16–18; Is 39:5–7]
14He deported all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the best soldiers #– #ten thousand captives including all the craftsmen and metalsmiths. Except for the poorest people of the land, no one remained.[#24:14 Jr 24:1; #24:14 Jr 52:28; #24:14 Jr 24:1; 29:2; #24:14 2Kg 25:12]
15Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. He took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.[#24:15 2Ch 36:10; Jr 22:24–28]
16The king of Babylon brought captive into Babylon all seven thousand of the best soldiers and one thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths #– #all strong and fit for war.
17And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.[#24:17 Lit his; #24:17 1Ch 3:15; 2Ch 36:11; Jr 1:3]
18Zedekiah 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; she was from Libnah.[#24:18 Jr 27:1; 28:1; #24:18–20 2Ch 36:11–12; Jr 52:1–3; #24:18 2Kg 23:31]
19Zedekiah did what was evil in the Lord ’s sight just as Jehoiakim had done.[#24:19 2Kg 23:37]
20Because of the Lord ’s anger, it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he finally banished them from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.[#24:20 Dt 4:26; 29:27; 2Kg 23:26; #24:20 2Kg 13:23; #24:20 2Ch 36:13; Ezk 17:15]