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Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.

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In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

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Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

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and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

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The king of Egypt didn’t come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

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He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.

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At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;

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and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

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He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.

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He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land.

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He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

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The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin’s] father’s brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

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For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

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So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

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Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.

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They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.

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He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

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All the army of the Chaldeans, who were [with] the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

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The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.

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But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

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The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

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The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.

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The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

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The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.

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The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

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and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.

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Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

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The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

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As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.

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Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”

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But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.

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All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

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It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

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and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

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and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

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and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

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Adam, Seth, Enosh,

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Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

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Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

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Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

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The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.

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The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

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The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

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Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

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and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim.

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Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

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and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

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and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

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and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

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The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

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Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.

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To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

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and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

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and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

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and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

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Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

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Eber, Peleg, Reu,

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Serug, Nahor, Terah,

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Abram (the same is Abraham).

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The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

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These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

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Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

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Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

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The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

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The sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

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Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

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The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.

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The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

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The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

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The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.

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The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.

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The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.

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The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

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The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.

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Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

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Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

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Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

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Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

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Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.