⁹Jehoiachin was eighteen^c years old^d when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. ¹⁰And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with objects of the treasure of the house of Yahweh. And he made Zedekiah his brother king in Judah and Jerusalem.

¹¹Zedekiah was twenty-one years old^e when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹²And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet who spoke for^f Yahweh. ¹³And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel. ¹⁴All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

¹⁵And Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,^g had repeatedly and persistently sent to them by the hand of his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. ¹⁶But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy.

The Destruction of Jerusalem

¹⁷Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He showed no mercy on a young man, a virgin, the elderly, or decrepit. He delivered all into his hand. ¹⁸And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, the storehouses of the house of Yahweh, and the storehouses of the king and his princes, these all he brought to Babylon. ¹⁹And they burned the house of God. And they shattered the walls of Jerusalem and burned all its citadels with fire and destroyed all the vessels of its treasuries. ²⁰And he took those who escaped the sword^h to Babylon. And they became servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, ²¹to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of desolation it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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Footnotes

cAccording to the lxx and 2 Kgs 24:8. mt has “eight”
dLiterally “was a son of eighteen years”
eLiterally “was a son of twenty and one years”
fLiterally “from the mouth of”
gOr “fathers”
hLiterally “the remainder from the sword”