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His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, just as his father had done.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>At that time the servants of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>King 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.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Capture of Jerusalem</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He carried off all the treasures of the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and the treasures of the king’s house; he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, which King Solomon of Israel had made, all this as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had foretold. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>He 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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>He 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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>The 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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Zedekiah Reigns over Judah</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, just as Jehoiakim had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> that he expelled them from his presence.</span></p><h3><span class="text">The Fall and Captivity of Judah</span></h3><p><span class="text">Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. </span> </p></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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