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1 Then the peo­ple of the land took Je­hoa­haz the son of Josi­ah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2 Je­hoa­haz was twen­ty and three years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and con­demned the land in an hun­dred tal­ents of sil­ver and a tal­ent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eli­akim his broth­er king over Ju­dah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Je­hoiakim. And Ne­cho took Je­hoa­haz his broth­er, and car­ried him to Egypt. 5 Je­hoiakim was twen­ty and five years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. 6 Against him came up Neb­uchad­nez­zar king of Baby­lon, and bound him in fet­ters, to car­ry him to Baby­lon. 7 Neb­uchad­nez­zar also car­ried of the ves­sels of the house of the LORD to Baby­lon, and put them in his tem­ple at Baby­lon. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Je­hoiakim, and his abom­i­na­tions which he did, and that which was found in him, be­hold, they are writ­ten in the book of the kings of Is­rael and Ju­dah: and Je­hoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 9 Je­hoiachin was eight years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 10 And when the year was ex­pired, king Neb­uchad­nez­zar sent, and brought him to Baby­lon, with the good­ly ves­sels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedeki­ah his broth­er king over Ju­dah and Jerusalem. 11 Zedeki­ah was one and twen­ty years old when he be­gan to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and hum­bled not him­self be­fore Jeremi­ah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD. 13 And he also re­belled against king Neb­uchad­nez­zar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiff­ened his neck, and hard­ened his heart from turn­ing unto the LORD God of Is­rael. 14 More­over all the chief of the priests, and the peo­ple, trans­gressed very much af­ter all the abom­i­na­tions of the hea­then; and pol­lut­ed the house of the LORD which he had hal­lowed in Jerusalem. 15 And the LORD God of their fa­thers sent to them by his mes­sen­gers, ris­ing up be­times, and send­ing; be­cause he had com­pas­sion on his peo­ple, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the mes­sen­gers of God, and de­spised his words, and mis­used his prophets, un­til the wrath of the LORD arose against his peo­ple, till there was no rem­e­dy. 17 There­fore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanc­tu­ary, and had no com­pas­sion upon young man or maid­en, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. 18 And all the ves­sels of the house of God, great and small, and the trea­sures of the house of the LORD, and the trea­sures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Baby­lon. 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces there­of with fire, and de­stroyed all the good­ly ves­sels there­of. 20 And them that had es­caped from the sword car­ried he away to Baby­lon; where they were ser­vants to him and his sons un­til the reign of the king­dom of Per­sia: 21 To ful­fil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremi­ah, un­til the land had en­joyed her sab­baths: for as long as she lay des­o­late she kept sab­bath, to ful­fil three­score and ten years. 22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Per­sia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremi­ah might be ac­com­plished, the LORD stirred up the spir­it of Cyrus king of Per­sia, that he made a procla­ma­tion through­out all his king­dom, and put it also in writ­ing, say­ing, 23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Per­sia, All the king­doms of the earth hath the LORD God of heav­en giv­en me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Ju­dah. Who is there among you of all his peo­ple? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.