24 In Ye·hoiʹa·kim’s days King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar of Babylon came against him, and Ye·hoiʹa·kim became his servant for three years. However, he turned against him and rebelled. 2 Then Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} began to send against him marauder bands of Chal·deʹans, Syrians, Moʹab·ites, and Amʹmon·ites. He kept sending them against Judah to destroy it, according to Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s word that he had spoken through his servants the prophets. 3 Surely it was by the order of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} that this happened to Judah, to remove them from his sight because of all the sins that Ma·nasʹseh had committed, 4 and also the innocent blood that he had shed, for he had filled Yerushalom with innocent blood and Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} was not willing to forgive.
5 As for the rest of the history of Ye·hoiʹa·kim, all that he did, is it not written in the book of the history of the times of the kings of Judah? 6 Then Ye·hoiʹa·kim was laid to rest with his forefathers; and his son Ye·hoiʹa·chin became king in his place.
7 Never again did the king of Egypt venture out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Wadi of Egypt up to the Eu·phraʹtes River.
8 Ye·hoiʹa·chin was 18 years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Yerushalom. His mother’s name was Ne·hushʹta the daughter of Al·naʹthan of Yerushalom. 9 He continued to do what was bad in Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s eyes, according to all that his father had done. 10 During that time the servants of King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar of Babylon came up against Yerushalom, and the city came under siege. 11 King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were laying siege to it.
12 King Ye·hoiʹa·chin of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, along with his mother, his servants, his princes, and his court officials; and the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. 13 Then he took out from there all the treasures of the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} and the treasures of the king’s house. He cut into pieces all the gold utensils that Solʹo·mon the king of Isra'Al had made in the temple of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}. This happened just as Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} had foretold. 14 He took into exile all Yerushalom, all the princes, all the mighty warriors, and every craftsman and metalworker—he took 10,000 into exile. No one was left behind except the poorest people of the land. 15 Thus he took Ye·hoiʹa·chin into exile to Babylon; he also led away the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his court officials, and the foremost men of the land, taking them into exile from Yerushalom to Babylon. 16 The king of Babylon also took into exile to Babylon all the warriors, 7,000, as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metalworkers, all of them mighty men and trained for war. 17 The king of Babylon made Mat·ta·nyʹah, Ye·hoiʹa·chin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zed·e·kyʹah.
18 Zed·e·kyʹah was 21 years old when he became king, and he reigned for 11 years in Yerushalom. His mother’s name was Ha·muʹtal the daughter of Yeremyah from Libʹnah. 19 He continued to do what was bad in Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s eyes, according to all that Ye·hoiʹa·kim had done. 20 It was because of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s anger that these things took place in Yerushalom and in Judah, until he cast them out of his sight. And Zed·e·kyʹah rebelled against the king of Babylon.