1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has come up, and Jehoiakim is a servant to him [for] three years; and he turns and rebels against him, 2 and YHWH sends against him the troops of the Chaldeans, and the troops of Aram, and the troops of Moab, and the troops of the sons of Ammon, and He sends them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of YHWH that He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets; 3 only, by the command of YHWH it has been against Judah to turn [them] aside from His presence, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, 4 and also the innocent blood that he has shed, and he fills Jerusalem with innocent blood, and YHWH was not willing to forgive. 5 And the rest of the matters of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 6 And Jehoiakim lies with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigns in his stead. 7 And the king of Egypt has not added anymore to go out from his own land, for the king of Babylon has taken, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River, all that had been to the king of Egypt. 8 Jehoiachin [is] a son of eighteen years in his reigning, and he has reigned three months in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem, 9 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his fathers did. 10 At that time servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon have come up to Jerusalem, and the city goes into siege, 11 and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon comes against the city, and his servants are laying siege to it, 12 and Jehoiachin king of Judah goes out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his eunuchs, and the king of Babylon takes him in the eighth year of his reign, 13 and brings out from there all the treasures of the house of YHWH, and the treasures of the house of the king, and cuts in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel made in the temple of YHWH, as YHWH had spoken. 14 And he has removed all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the mighty men of valor—ten thousand [is] the expulsion—and every craftsman and smith; none has been left except the poor of the people of the land. 15 And he removes Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs, and the mighty ones of the land—he has caused a removal to go from Jerusalem to Babylon, 16 and all the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, the whole [are] mighty men, warriors; and the king of Babylon brings them in a captivity to Babylon. 17 And the king of Babylon causes his father’s brother Mattaniah to reign in his stead, and turns his name to Zedekiah. 18 Zedekiah [is] a son of twenty-one years in his reigning, and he has reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, 19 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH according to all that Jehoiakim did, 20 for by the anger of YHWH it has been against Jerusalem and against Judah, until He [finally] cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebels against the king of Babylon.
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Elnathan
Named as the father of Nehushta, the mother of King Jehoiachin.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 24:8
Hamutal
Daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah, named as the mother of Jehoahaz and of Zedekiah, kings of Judah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:18; Jeremiah 52:1
Jehoiakim
Josiah's son Eliakim, made king by Pharaoh Neco who changed his name, who reigned eleven years, became Nebuchadnezzar's vassal for three years and then rebelled, and was succeeded…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:34; 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:1
Jeremiah
A man of Libnah named as the father of Hamutal, mother of King Zedekiah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:18; Jeremiah 52:1
Nebuchadnezzar
King of Babylon who made Jehoiakim his vassal, took Jehoiachin captive, placed Zedekiah on the throne, besieged Jerusalem, and appointed Gedaliah over those left in the land.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 24:1; 2 Kings 24:11; 2 Kings 25:1
Nehushta
Daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem, mother of King Jehoiachin, taken into exile with him.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 24:8
Zedekiah
Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah, renamed Zedekiah by the king of Babylon, who became king at twenty-one, reigned eleven years, rebelled against Babylon, was captured near Jericho,…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 24:17; 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 24:20
Cross references (18)
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- 1 Daniel 1:1; Jeremiah 25:1; Jeremiah 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:6–21; 2 Kings 17:5
- 2 Jeremiah 35:11; 2 Kings 23:27; Jeremiah 25:9; 2 Kings 21:12–14; Jeremiah 32:28
- 3 2 Kings 23:26–27; 2 Kings 18:25; 2 Kings 21:2–11; Isaiah 10:5–6; Joshua 23:15
- 4 2 Kings 21:16; Deuteronomy 19:10; Jeremiah 2:34; Numbers 35:33; Psalm 106:38
- 5 2 Chronicles 36:8; Jeremiah 22:13–17; Jeremiah 26:1–24
- 6 Jeremiah 22:18–19; Jeremiah 36:30; 2 Chronicles 36:6; 2 Chronicles 36:8
- 7 Jeremiah 37:5–7; Jeremiah 46:2; Genesis 15:18; Numbers 34:5; Isaiah 27:12
- 8 2 Chronicles 36:9; 1 Chronicles 3:16; Jeremiah 22:24; Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 37:1
- 10 2 Kings 25:2; Daniel 1:1–2
- 12 Jeremiah 52:28; Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:1–2; 2 Chronicles 36:10; 2 Kings 25:27
- 13 Isaiah 39:6; 2 Kings 20:17; Jeremiah 20:5; 1 Kings 7:48–50; 2 Kings 25:13–15
- 14 Jeremiah 52:28; 2 Kings 25:12; 2 Kings 24:16; Ezekiel 1:1–2; Jeremiah 39:10
- 15 Esther 2:6; Jeremiah 22:24–28; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Ezekiel 17:12; 2 Kings 24:8
- 16 Jeremiah 52:28; 2 Kings 24:14; Jeremiah 29:2
- 17 Jeremiah 37:1; 2 Kings 23:34; 2 Chronicles 36:4; Jeremiah 52:1; 2 Chronicles 36:10–13
- 18 2 Kings 23:31; Jeremiah 52:1–11; Jeremiah 37:1; 2 Chronicles 36:11
- 19 2 Kings 23:37; Ezekiel 21:25; 2 Chronicles 36:12; Jeremiah 37:1–21; Jeremiah 24:8
- 20 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11; 2 Chronicles 36:13; Jeremiah 27:12–15; 2 Kings 22:17; Ezekiel 17:15–20
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