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¹ In hisIn the end of the third year of his reign and in the beginning of the fourth, (Dan_1:1).days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

² And the Lorde sent against him bandes of the Caldees, and bands of the Aramites, & bands of the Moabites, and bandes of the Ammonites, and he sent them against Iudah to destroy it, according to the worde of the Lord, which he spake by his seruants the Prophets.

³ Surely at theThough God used these wicked tyrants to execute his just judgments, they are not to be excused, for they proceeded from ambition and malice.commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

⁴ And for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Ierusalem with innocent blood) therefore the Lord would not pardon it.

⁵ Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges of Iudah?

⁶ So JehoiakimNot that he was buried with his fathers, but he died in the way, as they let him prisoner toward Babylon, see (Jer_22:19).slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

⁷ And the King of Egypt came no more out of his lande: for the King of Babel had taken from the riuer of Egypt, vnto the riuer Perath, all that pertained to the King of Egypt.

⁸ Iehoiachin was eighteene yere old, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned in Ierusalem three moneths. His mothers name also was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Ierusalem.

⁹ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, according to all that his father had done.

¹⁰ In that time came the seruants of Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babel vp against Ierusalem: so the citie was besieged.

¹¹ And Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel came against the citie, and his seruants did besiege it.

¹² And Jehoiachin the king of JudahThat is, yielded himself to him by the counsel of Jeremiah.went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth yearIn the reign of the king of Babylon.of his reign.

¹³ And he caryed out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lorde, & the treasures of the Kings house, and brake all the vessels of gold, which Salomon King of Israel had made in the Temple of the Lorde, as the Lord had saide.

¹⁴ And he caryed away all Ierusalem, and all the princes, and all the strong men of warre, euen ten thousande into captiuitie, and all the workemen, and cunning men: so none remained sauing the poore people of the lande.

¹⁵ And he caryed away Iehoiachin into Babel, and the Kings mother, and the Kinges wiues, and his eunuches, and the mightie of the lande caryed he away into captiuitie from Ierusalem to Babel,

¹⁶ And al the men of warre, euen seuen thousand, and carpenters, & lockesmithes a thousande: all that were strong and apt for warre, did the King of Babel bring to Babel captiues.

¹⁷ And the King of Babel made Mattaniah his vncle King in his steade, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

¹⁸ Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Hamutal the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.

¹⁹ And he did euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Iehoiakim had done.

²⁰ For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from hisOut of Jerusalem and Judah into Babylon.presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.