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2 Kings, Chapter 18

1  In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah1 18:2 Hebrew Abi , a variant of Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
3  He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD , just as his father David had done.
4  He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called2 18:4 Or He called it Nehushtan.3 18:4 Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for bronze and snake and unclean thing. )
5  Hezekiah trusted in the LORD , the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.
6  He held fast to the LORD and did not cease to follow him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.
7  And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
8  From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.
9  In King Hezekiah's fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.
10  At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah's sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
11  The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.
12  This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant-all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.
13  In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
14  So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me." The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents4 18:14 That is, about 11 tons (about 10 metric tons) of silver and thirty talents5 18:14 That is, about 1 ton (about 1 metric ton) of gold.
15  So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
16  At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD , and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17  The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field.
18  They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.
19  The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah:
20  You say you have strategy and military strength-but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?
21  Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.
22  And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?
23  " 'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses-if you can put riders on them!
24  How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen6 18:24 Or charioteers ?
25  Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD ? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' "
26  Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."
27  But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the men sitting on the wall-who, like you, will have to eat their own filth and drink their own urine?"
28  Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
29  This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand.
30  Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
31  "Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
32  until I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death!
"Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.'
33  Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
34  Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?
35  Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"
36  But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."
37  Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.

2 Kings, Chapter 19

1  When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD .
2  He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
3  They told him, "This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
4  It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives."
5  When King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah,
6  Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard-those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7  Listen! I am going to put such a spirit in him that when he hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.' "
8  When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9  Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite1 19:9 That is, from the upper Nile region king of Egypt , was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:
10  "Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, 'Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'
11  Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?
12  Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them: the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?
13  Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?"
14  Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD .
15  And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD : "O LORD , God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
16  Give ear, O LORD , and hear; open your eyes, O LORD , and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.
17  "It is true, O LORD , that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.
18  They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by men's hands.
19  Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD , are God."
20  Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD , the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
21  This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him:
22  Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
23  By your messengers
you have heaped insults on the Lord.
And you have said,
"With my many chariots
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its pines.
I have reached its remotest parts,
the finest of its forests.
24  I have dug wells in foreign lands
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
25  " 'Have you not heard?
Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned it;
now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
into piles of stone.
26  Their people, drained of power,
are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
like tender green shoots,
like grass sprouting on the roof,
scorched before it grows up.
27  " 'But I know where you stay
and when you come and go
and how you rage against me.
28  Because you rage against me
and your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
by the way you came.'
29  "This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah:
30  Once more a remnant of the house of Judah
will take root below and bear fruit above.
31  For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,
and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.
32  "Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria:
33  By the way that he came he will return;
he will not enter this city,
declares the LORD .
34  I will defend this city and save it,
for my sake and for the sake of David my servant."
35  That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning-there were all the dead bodies!
36  So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
37  One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

2 Kings, Chapter 20

1  In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover."
2  Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD ,
3  "Remember, O LORD , how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4  Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:
5  "Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'This is what the LORD , the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the LORD .
6  I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.' "
7  Then Isaiah said, "Prepare a poultice of figs." They did so and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.
8  Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the LORD on the third day from now?"
9  Isaiah answered, "This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?"
10  "It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps," said Hezekiah. "Rather, have it go back ten steps."
11  Then the prophet Isaiah called upon the LORD , and the LORD made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
12  At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah's illness.
13  Hezekiah received the messengers and showed them all that was in his storehouses-the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine oil-his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
14  Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, "What did those men say, and where did they come from?"
"From a distant land," Hezekiah replied. "They came from Babylon."
15  The prophet asked, "What did they see in your palace?"
"They saw everything in my palace," Hezekiah said. "There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them."
16  Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD :
17  The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD .
18  And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, that will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
19  "The word of the LORD you have spoken is good," Hezekiah replied. For he thought, "Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?"
20  As for the other events of Hezekiah's reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
21  Hezekiah rested with his fathers. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.

2 Kings, Chapter 21

1  Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
2  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD , following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
3  He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
4  He built altars in the temple of the LORD , of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put my Name."
5  In both courts of the temple of the LORD , he built altars to all the starry hosts.
6  He sacrificed his own son in1 21:6 Or He made his own son pass through the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD , provoking him to anger.
7  He took the carved Asherah pole he had made and put it in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.
8  I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their forefathers, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them."
9  But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
10  The LORD said through his servants the prophets:
11  "Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.
12  Therefore this is what the LORD , the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
13  I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14  I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their foes,
15  because they have done evil in my eyes and have provoked me to anger from the day their forefathers came out of Egypt until this day."
16  Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end-besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the LORD .
17  As for the other events of Manasseh's reign, and all he did, including the sin he committed, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
18  Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.
19  Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
20  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD , as his father Manasseh had done.
21  He walked in all the ways of his father; he worshiped the idols his father had worshiped, and bowed down to them.
22  He forsook the LORD , the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD .
23  Amon's officials conspired against him and assassinated the king in his palace.
24  Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.
25  As for the other events of Amon's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
26  He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza. And Josiah his son succeeded him as king.

2 Kings, Chapter 22

1  Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
2  He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
3  In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the temple of the LORD . He said:
4  "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him get ready the money that has been brought into the temple of the LORD , which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
5  Have them entrust it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. And have these men pay the workers who repair the temple of the LORD -
6  the carpenters, the builders and the masons. Also have them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
7  But they need not account for the money entrusted to them, because they are acting faithfully."
8  Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD ." He gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
9  Then Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him: "Your officials have paid out the money that was in the temple of the LORD and have entrusted it to the workers and supervisors at the temple."
10  Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
11  When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.
12  He gave these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king's attendant:
13  "Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us."
14  Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophetess Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
15  She said to them, "This is what the LORD , the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me,
16  'This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book the king of Judah has read.
17  Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all the idols their hands have made,1 22:17 Or by everything they have done my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'
18  Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD , 'This is what the LORD , the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard:
19  Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people, that they would become accursed and laid waste, and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD .
20  Therefore I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.' "
So they took her answer back to the king.

2 Kings, Chapter 23

1  Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2  He went up to the temple of the LORD with the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets-all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD .
3  The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD -to follow the LORD and keep his commands, regulations and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
4  The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.
5  He did away with the pagan priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem-those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
6  He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.
7  He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes, which were in the temple of the LORD and where women did weaving for Asherah.
8  Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the shrines1 23:8 Or high places at the gates-at the entrance to the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate.
9  Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
10  He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in2 23:10 Or to make his son or daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
11  He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melech. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.
12  He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD . He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.
13  The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption-the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molech3 23:13 Hebrew Milcom the detestable god of the people of Ammon.
14  Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.
15  Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin-even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.
16  Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.
17  The king asked, "What is that tombstone I see?"
The men of the city said, "It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it."
18  "Leave it alone," he said. "Don't let anyone disturb his bones." So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
19  Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed and defiled all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria that had provoked the LORD to anger.
20  Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
21  The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."
22  Not since the days of the judges who led Israel, nor throughout the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah, had any such Passover been observed.
23  But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24  Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD .
25  Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did-with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.
26  Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke him to anger.
27  So the LORD said, "I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, 'There shall my Name be.'4 23:27 1 Kings 8:29 "
28  As for the other events of Josiah's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
29  While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
30  Josiah's servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
31  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
32  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD , just as his fathers had done.
33  Pharaoh Neco put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath5 23:33 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 36:3) Neco at Riblah in Hamath removed him so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents6 23:33 That is, about 3 3/4 tons (about 3.4 metric tons) of silver and a talent7 23:33 That is, about 75 pounds (about 34 kilograms) of gold.
34  Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.
35  Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Neco the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.
36  Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.
37  And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD , just as his fathers had done.

2 Kings, Chapter 24

1  During Jehoiakim's reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. But then he changed his mind and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
2  The LORD sent Babylonian,1 24:2 Or Chaldean Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him. He sent them to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by his servants the prophets.
3  Surely these things happened to Judah according to the LORD's command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done,
4  including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was not willing to forgive.
5  As for the other events of Jehoiakim's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
6  Jehoiakim rested with his fathers. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.
7  The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
8  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.
9  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD , just as his father had done.
10  At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it,
11  and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.
12  Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him.
In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
13  As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed all the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and took away all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD .
14  He carried into exile all Jerusalem: all the officers and fighting men, and all the craftsmen and artisans-a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left.
15  Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother, his wives, his officials and the leading men of the land.
16  The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand craftsmen and artisans.
17  He made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18  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.
19  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD , just as Jehoiakim had done.
20  It was because of the LORD's anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.

2 Kings, Chapter 25

1  So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.
2  The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3  By the ninth day of the fourth1 25:3 See Jer. 52:6. month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
4  Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, though the Babylonians2 25:4 Or Chaldeans ; also in verses 13, 25 and 26 were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,3 25:4 Or the Jordan Valley
5  but the Babylonian4 25:5 Or Chaldean ; also in verses 10 and 24 army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,
6  and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where sentence was pronounced on him.
7  They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.
8  On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9  He set fire to the temple of the LORD , the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
10  The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
11  Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had gone over to the king of Babylon.
12  But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
13  The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
14  They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.
15  The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls-all that were made of pure gold or silver.
16  The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD , was more than could be weighed.
17  Each pillar was twenty-seven feet5 25:17 Hebrew eighteen cubits (about 8.1 meters) high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was four and a half feet6 25:17 Hebrew three cubits (about 1.3 meters) high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.
18  The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.
19  Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of his men who were found in the city.
20  Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
21  There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.
So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
22  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.
23  When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah-Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, and their men.
24  Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. "Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials," he said. "Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you."
25  In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
26  At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together with the army officers, fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians.
27  In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Evil-Merodach7 25:27 Also called Amel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin from prison on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.
28  He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
29  So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king's table.
30  Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.
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