^12 (A)Then Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his commanders and his officials. So ^(B)the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

Jehoiachin Reigns over Judah

^9 (A)Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh. ^10 (B)And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of Yahweh, and he made his relative ^(C)Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

²⁴ “As I live,” declares Yahweh, “even though ^[a](A)Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a ^(B)signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull ^[b]you ^[c]off;

The Good and the Rotten Figs

24 After ^(A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken away into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, Yahweh showed me: behold, two ^(B)baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh!

^31 (A)Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that ^[a]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, ^(B)lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison;