2 Kings 24242 KingsJudah alone to the fall of JerusalemBible in Basic English

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1. Babylon Controls Jehoiakim

2. 1BBEIn his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.BSBBSB: During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
3. 2BBEAnd the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.BSBBSB: And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
4. 3BBEOnly by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;BSBBSB: Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
5. 4BBEAnd because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.BSBBSB: and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
6. 5BBENow the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?BSBBSB: As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

7. Jehoiachin Reigns in Judah

   (2 Chronicles 36:9–10)

8. 6BBESo Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.BSBBSB: And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
9. 7BBEAnd the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.BSBBSB: Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
10. 8BBEJehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.BSBBSB: Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
11. 9BBEHe did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.BSBBSB: And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.

12. The Captivity of Jerusalem

    (Lamentations 1:1–22)

13. 10BBEAt that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.BSBBSB: At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
14. 11BBEAnd Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;BSBBSB: And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
15. 12BBEThen Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.BSBBSB: Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
16. 13BBEAnd he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.BSBBSB: As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
17. 14BBEAnd he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.BSBBSB: He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
18. 15BBEHe took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.BSBBSB: Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
19. 16BBEAnd all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.BSBBSB: The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.
20. 17BBEAnd the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.BSBBSB: Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

21. Zedekiah Reigns in Judah

    (2 Chronicles 36:11–14; Jeremiah 52:1–3)

22. 18BBEZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.BSBBSB: Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
23. 19BBEHe did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.BSBBSB: And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
24. 20BBEAnd because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.BSBBSB: For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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