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and also because of the innocent blood he had shed - for he had flooded Yerushalayim with innocent blood, and ADONAI was unwilling to forgive.
5
Other activities of Y'hoyakim and all his accomplishments are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Y'hudah.
6
Then Y'hoyakim slept with his ancestors, and Y'hoyakhin his son took his place as king.
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The king of Egypt did not leave his own land any more, because the king of Bavel had captured all the territory of the king of Egypt between the Vadi of Egypt and the Euphrates River.
8
Y'hoyakhin was eighteen years old when he began his reign, and he ruled in Yerushalayim for three months. His mother's name was N'chushta the daughter of Elnatan, from Yerushalayim.
9
He did what was evil from ADONAI's perspective, following the example of everything his father had done.
10
It was then that the officers of N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel marched on Yerushalayim and laid siege to the city.
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N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel himself went to the city while it was under siege;
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and Y'hoyakhin king of Y'hudah went out to meet the king of Bavel - he, his mother, and his servants, princes and officers; and the king of Bavel took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
13
He also carried away from there all the treasures in the house of ADONAI and the treasures in the royal palace. He cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Shlomo king of Isra'el had made in the temple of ADONAI, as ADONAI had said would happen.
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He carried all Yerushalayim away captive - all the princes, all the bravest soldiers- 10,000 captives; also all the craftsmen and metalworkers. No one was left but the poorest people of the land.