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<p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jehoiachin Reigns</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mothers name <i>was</i> Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>He did evil in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, according to all that his father had done. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Deportation to Babylon</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and the treasures of the kings house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had said. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the kings mother and the kings wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Zedekiah Made King</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>He did evil in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/24-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>For through the anger of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> <i>this</i> came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_kings/24.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Surely at the commandment of Jehovah came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_kings/24.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_kings/24.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Verily, at the commandment of Jehovah it came to pass against Judah, that they should be removed out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_kings/24.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Surely at the 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;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_kings/24.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Surely at the 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;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_kings/24.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_kings/24.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> only, by the command of Jehovah it hath been against Judah to turn them aside from His presence, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_ithe_iranian_conquest.htm">The Iranian Conquest</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving in Coste and Flandin. The vignette, drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a statuette in terra-cotta, found in Southern Russia, represents a young Scythian. The Iranian religions--Cyrus in Lydia and at Babylon: Cambyses in Egypt --Darius and the organisation of the empire. The Median empire is the least known of all those which held sway for a time over the destinies of a portion of Western Asia. The reason of this is not to be ascribed to the shortness of its duration: <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_ithe_iranian_conquest.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 9</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ballou/a_series_of_letters_in_defence_of_divine_revelation/extracts_no_vi.htm">Extracts No. vi. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">[Here twelve pages or more of the objector's manuscript are omitted, as the nature of his arguments will pretty fully appear in the reply; and as he has been obliged to rescind the ground he had taken, it is not expedient to publish his remarks. That the reader may see a little of the manner, however, in which he has given up his part of the argument, the following is inserted.] "Speaking however on the evidences of revelation, you have stated some things worthy of serious consideration; which if <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ballou/a_series_of_letters_in_defence_of_divine_revelation/extracts_no_vi.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hosea Ballou—</span><span class="citation2">A Series of Letters In Defence of Divine Revelation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_iitiglath-pileser_iii_and_the.htm">Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire from 745 to 722 B. C. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">TIGLATH-PILESER III. AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE FROM 745 to 722 B.C. FAILURE OF URARTU AND RE-CONQUEST Of SYRIA--EGYPT AGAIN UNITED UNDER ETHIOPIAN AUSPICES--PIONKHI--THE DOWNFALL OF DAMASCUS, OF BABYLON, AND OF ISRAEL. Assyria and its neighbours at the accession of Tiglath-pileser III.: progress of the Aramaeans in the basin of the Middle Tigris--Urartu and its expansion into the north of Syria--Damascus and Israel--Vengeance of Israel on Damascus--Jeroboam II.--Civilisation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_iitiglath-pileser_iii_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_vengeance_should_be_taken.htm">Whether Vengeance Should be Taken on those who have Sinned Involuntarily?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It seems that vengeance should be taken on those who have sinned involuntarily. For the will of one man does not follow from the will of another. Yet one man is punished for another, according to Ex. 20:5, "I am . . . God . . . jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation." Thus for the sin of Cham, his son Chanaan was curse (Gn. 9:25) and for the sin of Giezi, his descendants were struck with leprosy (4 Kings 5). Again the blood <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_vengeance_should_be_taken.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_x_covenanting_a_privilege.htm">Covenanting a Privilege of Believers. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Whatever attainment is made by any as distinguished from the wicked, or whatever gracious benefit is enjoyed, is a spiritual privilege. Adoption into the family of God is of this character. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power (margin, or, the right; or, privilege) to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name."[617] And every co-ordinate benefit is essentially so likewise. The evidence besides, that Covenanting <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_x_covenanting_a_privilege.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxii_the_greater_prophets.htm">The Greater Prophets. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. We have already seen (Chap. 15, Nos. 11 and 12) that from Moses to Samuel the appearances of prophets were infrequent; that with Samuel and the prophetical school established by him there began a new era, in which the prophets were recognized as a distinct order of men in the Theocracy; and that the age of written prophecy did not begin till about the reign of Uzziah, some three centuries after Samuel. The Jewish division of the latter prophets--prophets in the more restricted sense of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxii_the_greater_prophets.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">E. P. Barrows—</span><span class="citation2">Companion to the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_35_approaching_doom.htm">Approaching Doom</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The first years of Jehoiakim's reign were filled with warnings of approaching doom. The word of the Lord spoken by the prophets was about to be fulfilled. The Assyrian power to the northward, long supreme, was no longer to rule the nations. Egypt on the south, in whose power the king of Judah was vainly placing his trust, was soon to receive a decided check. All unexpectedly a new world power, the Babylonian Empire, was rising to the eastward and swiftly overshadowing all other nations. Within a <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_35_approaching_doom.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/kings.htm">Kings</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The book[1] of Kings is strikingly unlike any modern historical narrative. Its comparative brevity, its curious perspective, and-with some brilliant exceptions--its relative monotony, are obvious to the most cursory perusal, and to understand these things is, in large measure, to understand the book. It covers a period of no less than four centuries. Beginning with the death of David and the accession of Solomon (1 Kings i., ii.) it traverses his reign with considerable fulness (1 Kings iii.-xi.), <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/kings.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/24-3.htm">2 Kings 24:3 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_kings/24-3.htm">2 Kings 24:3 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_kings/24-3.htm">2 Kings 24:3 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_kings/24-3.htm">2 Kings 24:3 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_kings/24-3.htm">2 Kings 24:3 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/24-3.htm">2 Kings 24:3 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_kings/24-3.htm">2 Kings 24:3 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/24-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 24:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 24:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/24-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 24:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 24:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_kings/24-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>