Chapter 24 In his days Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up, and Jehoiakim
became his servant three years.
Then he turned and rebelled against him.
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.
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, and also for
the innocent blood that he shed.
For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.
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?
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers.
And Jehoiakim, his son, reigned in his stead.
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.
Jehoiakim was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem three months.
And his mother's name was Nehushtah, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that
his father had done.
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against the city, and his servants
did besiege it.
And Jehoiakim, 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.
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.
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty
men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths.
None remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
And he carried away Jehoiakim 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.
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a
thousand, all that was strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought
captive to Babylon.
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in his stead,
and changed his name to Zedekiah.
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 Hamutil, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libna.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done.
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.