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drb @2Kings:24:1 @In his days Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up , and Joakim became his servant three years : then again he rebelled against him . drb @2Kings:24:2 @And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees , and the rovers of Syria , and the rovers of Moab , and the rovers of the children of Ammon : and he sent them against Juda , to destroy it , according to the word of the Lord , which he had spoken by his servants the prophets . drb @2Kings:24:3 @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 . drb @2Kings:24:4 @And for the innocent blood that he shed , filling Jerusalem with innocent blood : and therefore the Lord would not be appeased . drb @2Kings:24:5 @But the rest of the acts of Joakim , and all that he did , are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda ? And Joakim slept with his fathers : drb @2Kings:24:6 @And Joachin his son reigned in his stead . drb @2Kings:24:7 @And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own country : for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt , from the river of Egypt , unto the river Euphrates . drb @2Kings:24:8 @Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign , a and he reigned three months in Jerusalem : the name of his mother was Nohesta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem . drb @2Kings:24:9 @And he did evil before the Lord , according to all that his father had done . drb @2Kings:24:10 @At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem , and the city was surrounded with their forts . drb @2Kings:24:11 @And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came to the city with his servants to assault it . drb @2Kings:24:12 @And Joachin king of Juda went out to the king of Babylon , he end his mother , and his servants , and his nobles , and his eunuchs : and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign . drb @2Kings:24:13 @And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord , and the treasures of the king 's house : and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord , according to the word of the Lord . drb @2Kings:24:14 @And he carried away all Jerusalem , and all the princes , and all the valiant men of the army , to the number of ten thousand into captivity : and every artificer and smith : and none were left , but the poor sort of the people of the land . drb @2Kings:24:15 @And he carried away Joachin into Babylon , and the king 's mother , and the king 's wives , and his eunuchs : and the judges of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem into Babylon . drb @2Kings:24:16 @And all the strong men , seven thousand , and the artificers , and the smiths a thousand , all that were valiant men and fit for war : and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon . drb @2Kings:24:17 @And he appointed Matthanias his uncle in his stead : and called his name Sedecias . drb @2Kings:24:18 @Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign , and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem : the name of his mother was Amital , the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna . drb @2Kings:24:19 @And he did evil before the Lord , according to all that Joakim had done . drb @2Kings:24:20 @For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda , till he cast them out from his face : and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon

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