2 Chronicles 36:8–21
8 The rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim,o the detestable actions he committed, and what was found against him, are written in the Book of Israel’s Kings. His son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
9 Jehoiachin was eighteen* years oldp when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. 10 In the springI,q Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon along with the valuable articles of the Lord’s temple. Then he made Jehoiachin’s brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.r
11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years olds when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God and did not humble himselft before the prophet Jeremiah at the Lord’s command.u 13 He also rebelled againstv King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear allegiance by God. He became obstinateJ,w and hardened his heart against returning to the Lord, the God of Israel. 14 All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
15 But the Lord, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of his messengers, sending them time and time again,x for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,y despising his words,z and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.aa 17 So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans,ab who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him. 18 He took everything to Babylon—all the articles of God’s temple, large and small, the treasures of the Lord’s temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials. 19 Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple.a They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
20 He deported those who escaped from the sword to Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the rise of the PersianA kingdom.b 21 This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah,c and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolationd until seventy years were fulfilled.