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Jehoiakim put the nobles in prison, and seized his brother Zarius and brought him up out of Egypt.
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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign in Judea and Jerusalem, and he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with a chain of brass 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 chronicles of the kings.
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Jehoiachin his son became king in his stead; 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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So after a year 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.
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He also did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not heed the words that were spoken by Jeremiah the prophet from the mouth of the Lord.
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And though King Nebuchadnezzar had made him swear by the name of the Lord, he broke his oath and rebelled; and he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart and transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.