The Second Book of Kings (Commonly Called The Fourth Book of Kings )

ln his days Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim was a servant to him three years; and he turned and rebelled against him.

And Jehovah sent against him the troops of the Chaldeans, and the troops of Syria, and the troops of Moab, and the troops of the Ammonites; and He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah that He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets.

Only, at the mouth of Jehovah, [this] came upon Judah, to remove [them] from His presence for the sins of Manasseh, according to all he did,

and also the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

And Jehoiakim lay with his fathers. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River, all [owned by] the king of Egypt.

Jehoiachin [was] a son of eighteen years when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem three months; and the name of his mother [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah according to all that his fathers did.

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants lay siege to it.

And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother, and his servants, and his leaders, and his eunuchs. And the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

And [he] brought out from there all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had spoken.

And he exiled Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs, and the mighty ones of the land; he caused a captivity to go from Jerusalem to Babylon.

And all the men of valor [were] seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand; all [were] mighty men, warriors; and the king of Babylon brought them in a captivity to Babylon.

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, the brother of his father, to reign in his place, and turned his name into Zedekiah.

Zedekiah [was] a son of twenty one years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years; and the name of his mother [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah according to all that Jehoiakim did.

For through the anger of Jehovah it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His face, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.