1 In those days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became subject to him for three years, after which he rebelled.
2 Yahweh then sent against Jehoiakim, bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites and Ammonites. They raided the land of Judah and destroyed it according to the word Yahweh had spoken through his servants, the prophets.
3 All this happened only because Yahweh had ordered it so. He willed to cast the people far away from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh, and all the evils he had done.
4 And also because of the innocent blood he had shed that filled Jerusalem. Because of all this, Yahweh would not pardon them.
5 The rest regarding Jehoiakim and all that he did is written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
6 When Jehoiakim died, his son Jehoiachin succeeded him.
7 The king of Egypt did not leave his own land again because the king of Babylon had conquered all that belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he succeeded his father, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. His mother was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9 Jehoiachin treated Yahweh badly, as his father had done.
10 At that time, the officials of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to attack Jerusalem, surrounding the city.
11 Nebuchadnezzar came while the city was being besieged by his men.
12 Jehoiachin, king of Judah, surrendered together with his mother, his servants, his leaders and the palace officials. It was the eighth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar.
13 Nebuchadnezzar captured them and he took away the treasures of the House of Yahweh and of the king's house. He also destroyed all the objects of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for the sanctuary of Yahweh. So the word Yahweh had spoken, was fulfilled.
14 Nebuchadnezzar carried off into exile all the leaders and prominent men, the blacksmiths and locksmiths, all the men of valor fit for war. A total of ten thousand were exiled to Babylon. Only the poorest sector of the population was left.
15 Nebuchaddnezzar also carried away Jehoiachin, with his mother, his wives, the ministers of the palace, and the prominent men of the land.
16 So all the prominent people, numbering seven thousand, the blacksmiths, numbering a thousand, and all the men fit for war were deported to Babylon by the king of Babylon.
17 He made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king of Jerusalem, in place of Jehoiachin. And he changed his name to Zedekiah.
18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah.
19 He did what displeased Yahweh, as Jehoiakim had done;
20 so the punishment of Yahweh fell on Jerusalem and Judah, until he cast them far away from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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Chapter 24 of 2 kings reports Judah's fall before Babylon, including the invasion of King Nebuchadnezzar, the siege of Jerusalem and the exile of King Joaquim and much of the people of Judah. To find five verses related to the topics covered in this chapter, scoured the whole Bible and selected:
Jeremiah 25:9: "Behold, I will send and take all the families of the North, says the Lord, and the Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and bring them against this land and against their inhabitants and against all these nations around , and I will totally destroy them and make them object of horror and whistle, ruined perpetuals. " This verse predicts the fall of Jerusalem and the invasion of Babylon, demonstrating God's faithfulness to fulfill His promises.
Jeremiah 21:7: "After this, says the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who remain in the plague, sword and hunger, in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylon, in the hand of their enemies, in the hand of those who seek to take their lives out; and he will hurt them to the wire of sword, will not spare them, nor will it have mercy, nor shake. " This verse indicates the punishment that would be imposed on Judah for its infidelity, including the exile and death of many of its inhabitants.
Lamentations 1:3: "Judah went to captivity because of distress and great servitude; dwells between nations, he finds no rest; all his persecutors reach it among his anguish." This verse describes Judah's situation after exile, living like a dispersed and oppressed nation among other nations.
Ezekiel 17:12: "Say, therefore, to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell us: Behold the king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and took the king and the princes, and took them to Babylon . " This verse refers to the exile of Joaquim and the princes of Judah to Babylon, emphasizing God's righteousness to punish the infidelity of the people.
Psalm 137:1: "Next to the rivers of Babylon, we settle there and cry, when we remember Zion." This verse describes the sadness and longing for the people of Judah by the place that was taken from them and the need to remember God and his covenant even in the midst of adversity.
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