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and fined the nation one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
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The king of Egypt made his brother Jehoiakim king of Judea and Jerusalem.
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Jehoiakim put the nobles in prison, and seized his brother Zarius and brought him back from Egypt.
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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign in Judea and Jerusalem; he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against him; he bound him with a chain of bronze and took him away to Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar also took some holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and stored them in his temple in Babylon.
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But the things that are reported about Jehoiakim, and his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the annals of the kings.
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His son Jehoiachin became king in his place; when he was made king he was eighteen years old,
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and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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A year later Nebuchadnezzar sent and removed him to Babylon, with the holy vessels of the Lord,
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and made Zedekiah king of Judea and Jerusalem. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old, and he reigned eleven years.