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Neco took Jehoahaz away to Egypt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. He did what the LORD his God considered evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim and put him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the utensils of the LORD's temple to Babylon. He put them in his palace in Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Everything else about Jehoiakim-the disgusting things he did and all the charges against him-is written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiakin succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Jehoiakin was eight years old when he began to rule as king. He was king for three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what the LORD considered evil.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In the spring King Nebuchadnezzar sent for Jehoiakin and brought him to Babylon with the valuable utensils from the LORD's temple. Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiakin's uncle Zedekiah king of Judah and Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He did what the LORD his God considered evil and didn't humble himself in front of the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke for the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar had made Zedekiah swear an oath of allegiance to him in God's name. But Zedekiah became so stubborn and so impossible to deal with that he refused to turn back to the LORD God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>All the officials, the priests, and the people became increasingly unfaithful and followed all the disgusting practices of the nations. Although the LORD had made the temple in Jerusalem holy, they made the temple unclean. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The LORD God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his messengers because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until the LORD became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So he had the Babylonian king attack them and execute their best young men in their holy temple. He didn't spare the best men or the unmarried women, the old people or the sick people. God handed all of them over to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He brought to Babylon each of the utensils from God's temple, the treasures from the LORD's temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They burned God's temple, tore down Jerusalem's walls, burned down all its palaces, and destroyed everything of value. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The king of Babylon took those who weren't executed to Babylon to be slaves for him and his sons. They remained captives until the Persian Empire began to rule. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This happened so that the LORD's words spoken through Jeremiah would be fulfilled. The land had its years of rest and was made acceptable [again]. While it lay in ruins, [the land had its] 70 years of rest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The promise the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah was about to come true in Cyrus' first year as king of Persia. The LORD inspired the king to make this announcement throughout his whole kingdom and then to put it in writing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the world. And he has ordered me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem (which is in Judah). May the LORD God be with all of you who are his people. 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