¹In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up , and Jehoiakim became his servant three years . Then he turned and rebelled against him .

²The LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans , bands of the Syrians, bands of the Moabites , and bands of the children of Ammon , and sent them against Judah to destroy it , according to the LORD ’s word which he spoke by his servants the prophets .

³Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came on Judah , to remove them out of his sight for the sins of Manasseh , according to all that he did ,

⁴and also for the innocent blood that he shed ; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood , and the LORD would not pardon .

⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim , and all that he did , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?

⁶So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place .

⁷The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more ; for the king of Babylon had taken , from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates , all that belonged to the king of Egypt .

⁸Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign , and he reigned in Jerusalem three months . His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem .

⁹He did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , according to all that his father had done .

¹⁰At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem , and the city was besieged .

¹¹Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it ,

¹²and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon—he , his mother, his servants , his princes , and his officers ; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign .

¹³He carried out from there all the treasures of the LORD ’s house 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 LORD ’s temple , as the LORD had said .

¹⁴He carried away all Jerusalem , and all the princes , and all the mighty men of valour , even ten thousand captives , and all the craftsmen and the smiths . No one remained except the poorest people of the land.

¹⁵He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king ’s mother, the king ’s wives, his officers , and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

¹⁶All the men of might , even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war , even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

¹⁷The king of Babylon made Mattaniah , Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place , and changed his name to Zedekiah .

¹⁸Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign , and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem . His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah .

¹⁹He did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , according to all that Jehoiakim had done .

²⁰For through the anger of the LORD , this happened in Jerusalem and Judah , until he had cast them out from his presence .

Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.