Thematic Bible
2 Kings 24:1 (show verse)
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up [because] Jehoiakim had become his servant [for] three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 Kings 24:2 (show verse)
So Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, raiding bands of Aram, raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the {Ammonites}. He had sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24:3 (show verse)
Surely, it was {on the command} of Yahweh against Judah to remove them from his sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.
2 Kings 24:4 (show verse)
Also, [for] the blood of the innocent that he had shed--and he filled Jerusalem [with] innocent blood--Yahweh was not willing to forgive.
2 Kings 24:5 (show verse)
The remainder of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, [are] they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 24:6 (show verse)
So Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
2 Kings 24:7 (show verse)
The king of Egypt did not again come out from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken [territory] from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
2 Kings 24:8 (show verse)
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother [was] Nehushta daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 24:9 (show verse)
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his father had done.
2 Kings 24:10 (show verse)
At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came [to] Jerusalem, and the city came under the siege.
2 Kings 24:11 (show verse)
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city [while] his servants were besieging it.
2 Kings 24:12 (show verse)
Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his court officials. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings 24:13 (show verse)
Then he took from there all of the treasures of the temple of Yahweh and the treasures of the palace of the king. He cut up all of the vessels of gold which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had foretold.
2 Kings 24:14 (show verse)
He deported all of Jerusalem: all of the commanders, ten thousand of the skilled warriors, and the artisans; no one was left over except the poorest of the people of the land.
2 Kings 24:15 (show verse)
He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king, the wives of the king, his court officials, and the citizenry of the land he caused to go into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:
2 Kings 24:16 (show verse)
of all of the skilled men, seven thousand, and [of] the skilled craftsmen and the artisans, one thousand. All of the mighty warriors {fit for war} the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:17 (show verse)
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his place and changed his name [to] Zedekiah.
2 Kings 24:18 (show verse)
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother [was] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
2 Kings 24:19 (show verse)
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh [just] like all that Jehoiakim had done.
2 Kings 24:20 (show verse)
For it happened because of the anger of Yahweh, in Jerusalem and in Judah, until they were cast out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.