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The Fourth
Book of Kings 24
In his days Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up,
and Joakim became his servant three years: then again
he rebelled against him.
And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees,
and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and
the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them
against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of
the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants the prophets.
And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda,
to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses
which he did.
And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem
with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not
be appeased.
But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the words of
the days of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with
his fathers:
And Joachin his son reigned in his stead.
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of
his own country: for the king of Babylon had taken all
that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river
of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.
Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign,
a and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name
of his mother was Nohesta the daughter of Elnathan of
Jerusalem.
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that
his father had done.
At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was
surrounded with their forts.
And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came to the city
with his servants to assault it.
And Joachin king of Juda went out to the king of Babylon,
he end his mother, and his servants, and his nobles,
and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him
in the eighth year of his reign.
And he brought out from thence all the treasures of
the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's
house: and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold
which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple
of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes,
and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of
ten thousand into captivity: and every artificer and
smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the
people of the land.
And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's
mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the
judges of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem
into Babylon.
And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers,
and the smiths a thousand, all that were valiant men
and fit for war: and the king of Babylon led them captives
into Babylon.
And he appointed Matthanias his uncle in his stead:
and called his name Sedecias.
Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias
of Lobna.
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that
Joakim had done.
For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against
Juda, till he cast them out from his face : and Sedecias
revolted from the king of Babylon. |
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