⁹^gJehoiachin was ^height years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁰^*And ^†when the year was expired, ⁱking Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, ^kwith the ^†goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made ^||^lZedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹¹^mZedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹²And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before ⁿJeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord. ¹³^*And he also ^orebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, ^pwho had made him swear by God: but he ^qstiffened his neck, and ^rhardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁴Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, ^stransgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵And the Lord God of their fathers ^tsent to them ^†by his messengers, rising up ^||betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: ¹⁶But they ^umocked the messengers of God, and ^xdespised his words, and ^ymisused his prophets, until ^zthe wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no ^†remedy. ¹⁷^aTherefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who ^bslew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or ^chim that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. ¹⁸And ^dall the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. ¹⁹^*^eAnd they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the ^fpalaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the ^ggoodly vessels thereof. ²⁰^*And ^†^hthem that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where ⁱthey were servants to him and his sons until ^kthe reign of the kingdom of Persia: ²¹To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^lJeremiah, until ^mthe land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate ⁿshe kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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Footnotes

hComp. 2 Kin. 24:8. 1 Esdr. 1:43.
†Heb. at the return of the year. See 2 Sam. 11:1.
kComp. ver. 7.
†Heb. vessels of desire. See ch 32:27. So ver. 19.
||Or, Mattaniah, [his father’s brother]. 2 Kin. 24:17. So Gen. 14:14.
l Jer. 37:1, &c.
oSee 2 Kin. 24:20.
pComp. Ezek. 17:18.
qSee ch. 30:8.
r Dt. 2:30 (Heb.).
sSee ch. 33:23 marg.
tch. 24:19. Neh. 9:30.
†Heb. by the hand of his messengers. See 1 Kin. 16:12.
||That is, continually and carefully. Jer. 7:13, 25. & 25:3, 4. & 26:5. & 29:19. & 35:15. & 44:4. So Jer. 11:7. & 32:33.
uSo ch. 30:10.
xSee Num. 15:31.
ySo Ge. 27:12 (Heb.). Comp. Jer. 32:3. & 38:6. Matt. 23:34–37.
zSo Ezra 5:12.
†Heb. healing. Prov. 6:15. & 29:1.
a 2 Kin. 25:1, &c. So Deut. 28:49. Ezra 9:7.
cSo Job 12:12. & 15:10. & 29:8. & 32:6, in the Heb.
d 2 Kin. 25:13–15. Comp. ver. 7, 10.
gSee ch. 32:27.
†Heb. the remainder from the sword.
kver. 22.
m Lev. 26:34, 35, 43. Dan. 9:2. 1 Macc. 6:49. Comp. Job 14:6 (Heb.).

Cross references

g 2 Kin. 24:8, 9.
*B.C. 599.
i 2 Kin. 24:10–17.
m 2 Kin. 24:18, 19. Jer. 52:1, 2.
n Jer. 21:1–7. & 27:12–28:17. & 32:1–5. & 37:1–10. & 38:14–28.
*B.C. 593.
b Ps. 78:63. & 79:2, 3.
*B.C. 590.
e 2 Kin. 25:9. Ps. 74:6, 7. & 79:1.
f 2 Kin. 15:25.
*B.C. 588.
h 2 Kin. 25:11.
i Jer. 27:7.
l Jer. 25:9, 11, 12. & 29:10.
n Lev. 25:4, 5.

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