¹⁰At that time the servants of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.^* ¹¹King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it; ¹²King Jehoiachin of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon: himself, his mother, his servants, his officers, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign.^*

Capture of Jerusalem

¹³He carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord that King Solomon of Israel had made, all this as the Lord had foretold.^* ¹⁴He carried away all Jerusalem, all the officials, all the warriors, ten thousand captives, all the artisans and the smiths; no one remained except the poorest people of the land.^* ¹⁵He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the elite of the land, he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.^* ¹⁶The king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, seven thousand, the artisans and the smiths, one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war.^* ¹⁷The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.^*

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Cross references

*Dan 1:1
*2 Kings 25:27; Jer 24:1; 25:1; 29:1, 2; 52:28
*2 Kings 20:17; 25:13–15; Isa 39:6; Jer 20:5
*2 Kings 25:12; Jer 24:1; 40:7; 52:28
*2 Chr 36:10; Jer 22:24–28
*Jer 52:28
*1 Chr 3:15; 2 Chr 36:4, 10; Jer 37:1