Moff 2 CHR Chapter 36

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36 Then the nation took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem, instead of his father. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months. 3 The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the country forty-two thousand pounds in silver and six thousand pounds in gold; 4 the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim; Necho bore off his brother Jehoahaz to Egypt. 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years, and did what was evil in the eyes of the Eternal his God. 6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against him and shackled him in chains, to carry him off to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also bore off some vessels from the temple of the Eternal and put them inside his palace at Babylon.

8 As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, his abominable deeds, and all his career, they are described in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

His son Jehoiakin reigned instead of him. 9 Jehoiakin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months. He did what was evil in the eyes of the Eternal. 10 The following spring, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the costly vessels of the temple of the Eternal, making his kinsman Zedekiah king instead of him over Judah and Jerusalem.

11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. 12 He did what was evil in the eyes of the Eternal his God. He would not humble himself before the prophet Jeremiah, who had the authority of the Eternal, 13 and he rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear to be loyal; he hardened his heart and obstinately refused to turn to the Eternal the God of Israel. 14 Also the leading priests and the people all sinned heavily by copying the abominable practices of the pagans, defiling the temple of the Eternal which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. 15 The Eternal the God of their 15 fathers sent warning to them by his messengers, eagerly and earnestly, because he had pity upon his people and his dwelling-place; 16 but they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and derided his prophets, until the wrath of the Eternal burst upon his people, past all remedy. 17 He brought down on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their soldiers inside the house of their sanctuary, and spared neither youths nor maidens, neither old men nor seniors--all were handed over to them by God. 18 (Also all the vessels of the temple of God, large and small, the treasures of the temple of the Eternal, and the treasures belonging to the king and to his nobles, all these the Chaldean king took away to Babylon, 19 burning down the temple of God, pulling down the wall of Jerusalem, burning all its buildings, and destroying all the costly vessels.) 20 He carried off the survivors to Babylon, where they were slaves to him and to his sons until the Persian empire rose. 21 All this, in fulfilment of what the Eternal had predicted by Jeremiah, that the land was to enjoy her sabbatical years, keeping her sabbaths all the time she lay desolate, for the full seventy years.

22 [[In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the prediction of the Eternal, announced by Jeremiah, might be carried out, the Eternal moved Cyrus king of Persia to issue a proclomation throughout all his realm, and to put it in writing. 23 "By order of Cyrus king of Persia: the Eternal the God of Israel has given me all kingdoms of the earth, and he has commissioned me to build him a temple at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Whosoever among you belongs to this people (may the Eternal his God be with him), let him go up thither."]]

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Moff 2 CHR Chapter 36

Moff 2 CHR Chapter 36