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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 24 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Kings 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/23.htm" title="2 Kings 23">◄</a> 2 Kings 24 <a href="../2_kings/25.htm" title="2 Kings 25">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_kings/24.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. But then he turned against Nebuchadnezzar and rebelled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> sent Babylonian, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Chaldean">a</a></sup></span> Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> proclaimed by his servants the prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Surely these things happened to Judah according to the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> was not willing to forgive.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As for the other events of Jehoiakim’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jehoiakim rested with his ancestors. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jehoiachin King of Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He did evil in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, just as his father had done.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him.</p><p class="reg">In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As the <span class="name">Lord</span> had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Zedekiah King of Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He did evil in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, just as Jehoiakim had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It was because of the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.</p><p class="sectionhead">The Fall of Jerusalem</p><p class="reg">Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Chaldean</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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