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1 In his days Neb­uchad­nez­zar king of Baby­lon came up, and Je­hoiakim be­came his ser­vant three years: then he turned and re­belled against him. 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syr­i­ans, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the chil­dren of Am­mon, and sent them against Ju­dah to de­stroy it, ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his ser­vants the prophets. 3 Sure­ly at the com­mand­ment of the LORD came this upon Ju­dah, to re­move them out of his sight, for the sins of Man­asseh, ac­cord­ing to all that he did; 4 And also for the in­no­cent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with in­no­cent blood; which the LORD would not par­don. 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? 6 So Je­hoiakim slept with his fa­thers: and Je­hoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Baby­lon had tak­en from the riv­er of Egypt unto the riv­er Eu­phrates all that per­tained to the king of Egypt. 8 Je­hoiachin was eigh­teen years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Ne­hush­ta, the daugh­ter of El­nathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, ac­cord­ing to all that his fa­ther had done. 10 At that time the ser­vants of Neb­uchad­nez­zar king of Baby­lon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was be­sieged. 11 And Neb­uchad­nez­zar king of Baby­lon came against the city, and his ser­vants did be­siege it. 12 And Je­hoiachin the king of Ju­dah went out to the king of Baby­lon, he, and his moth­er, and his ser­vants, and his princes, and his of­fi­cers: and the king of Baby­lon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 13 And he car­ried out thence 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, as the LORD had said. 14 And he car­ried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of val­our, even ten thou­sand cap­tives, and all the crafts­men and smiths: none re­mained, save the poor­est sort of the peo­ple of the land. 15 And he car­ried away Je­hoiachin to Baby­lon, and the king's moth­er, and the king's wives, and his of­fi­cers, and the mighty of the land, those car­ried he into cap­tiv­i­ty from Jerusalem to Baby­lon. 16 And all the men of might, even sev­en thou­sand, and crafts­men and smiths a thou­sand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Baby­lon brought cap­tive to Baby­lon. 17 And the king of Baby­lon made Mat­ta­ni­ah his father's broth­er king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedeki­ah. 18 Zedeki­ah was twen­ty and one years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamu­tal, the daugh­ter of Jeremi­ah of Lib­nah. 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, ac­cord­ing to all that Je­hoiakim had done. 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Ju­dah, un­til he had cast them out from his pres­ence, that Zedeki­ah re­belled against the king of Baby­lon.