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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.1" class="v12_24_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.24.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> While Jehoiakim was king, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judah, and for three years Jehoiakim was forced to submit to his rule; then he rebelled. </span><span class="v12_24_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.2" class="v12_24_2">2</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> sent armed bands of Babylonians, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah, as the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said through his servants the prophets that he would do. </span><span class="v12_24_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.3" class="v12_24_3">3</span>This happened at the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s command, in order to banish the people of Judah from his sight because of all the sins that King Manasseh had committed, </span><span class="v12_24_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.4" class="v12_24_4">4</span>and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> could not forgive Manasseh for that.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.5" class="v12_24_5">5</span>Everything that Jehoiakim did is recorded in <span class="bk">The History of the Kings of Judah</span>. </span><span class="v12_24_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.6" class="v12_24_6">6</span>Jehoiakim died, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.7" class="v12_24_7">7</span>The king of Egypt and his army never marched out of Egypt again, because the king of Babylonia now controlled all the territory that had belonged to Egypt, from the Euphrates River to the northern border of Egypt.</span></p><h3 class="s">King Jehoiachin of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 36:9">2 Chronicles 36.9</ref>,<ref loc="2CH 36:10">10</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.8" class="v12_24_8">8</span>Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for three months. His mother was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem. </span><span class="v12_24_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.9" class="v12_24_9">9</span>Following the example of his father, Jehoiachin sinned against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.10" class="v12_24_10">10</span>It was during his reign that the Babylonian army, commanded by King Nebuchadnezzar's officers, marched against Jerusalem and besieged it. </span><span class="v12_24_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.11" class="v12_24_11">11</span>During the siege Nebuchadnezzar himself came to Jerusalem, </span><span class="v12_24_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.12" class="v12_24_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.24.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and King Jehoiachin, along with his mother, his sons, his officers, and the palace officials, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign he took Jehoiachin prisoner </span><span class="v12_24_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.13" class="v12_24_13">13</span>and carried off to Babylon all the treasures in the Temple and the palace. As the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had foretold, Nebuchadnezzar broke up all the gold utensils which King Solomon had made for use in the Temple. </span><span class="v12_24_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.14" class="v12_24_14">14</span>Nebuchadnezzar carried away as prisoners the people of Jerusalem, all the royal princes, and all the leading men, ten thousand in all. He also deported all the skilled workers, including the blacksmiths, leaving only the poorest of the people behind in Judah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.15" class="v12_24_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.24.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylon as a prisoner, together with Jehoiachin's mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of Judah. </span><span class="v12_24_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.16" class="v12_24_16">16</span>Nebuchadnezzar deported all the important men to Babylonia, seven thousand in all, and one thousand skilled workers, including the blacksmiths, all of them able-bodied men fit for military duty.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.17" class="v12_24_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.24.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah king of Judah and changed his name to Zedekiah.</span></p><h3 class="s">King Zedekiah of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 36:11">2 Chronicles 36.11</ref>,<ref loc="2CH 36:12">12</ref>; <ref loc="JER 52:1-3a">Jeremiah 52.1-3a</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_24_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.18" class="v12_24_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.24.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from the city of Libnah. </span><span class="v12_24_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.19" class="v12_24_19">19</span>King Zedekiah sinned against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, just as King Jehoiakim had done. </span><span class="v12_24_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.24.20" class="v12_24_20">20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.24.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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