2 Chronicles 36:1-16 - The Decline Of Judah
1 And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king for his father in Jerusalem.
2 And Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 For the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem and merced the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king upon Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name unto Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz his brother, Neco took and carried him to Egypt.
5 And Jehoiakim was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that displeased the LORD his God. 6 Against him came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. 7 Thereto the king Nebuchadnezzar carried off the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8 The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his Abominations, and that was laid to his charge, are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and did that displeased the LORD. 10 And when the year was out, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and fetched him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 And Zedekiah was twenty one years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 And he did that displeased the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet at the mouth of the LORD. 13 And thereto he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar which had received an oath of him by God, and was too stiff necked and too hard hearted to turn unto the LORD God of Israel. 14 Thereto, all the rulers of the priests with the people trespassed apace after all manner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, sending them betimes: for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.