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At that time the slaves of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
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Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, also came against the city
when his slaves had besieged it.
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So Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his slaves and his princes and his eunuchs; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
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And he carried out of there all the treasures of the house of the LORD 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 the LORD, as the LORD had said.
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And he carried away all Jerusalem and all the princes and all the mighty men of valour, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths; none remained except the poorest sort of the people of the land.
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He likewise carried Jehoiachin away to Babylon and the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officers, and the mighty of the land; he carried them all into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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All the men of might,
which were seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths
which were one thousand, all
that were strong
and apt for war, the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
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And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father’s brother, king in his stead 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. His mother’s name
was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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For the anger of the LORD was against Jerusalem and Judah until he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.