¹³ He also carried off from there all the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that King Solomon of Israel had made^(A) for the Lord’s sanctuary, just as the Lord had predicted.^(B)

⁷ Also Nebuchadnezzar took some of the articles of the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his temple in Babylon.^(A)

⁸ The rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim,^(B) the detestable actions he committed, and what was found against him, are written in the Book of Israel’s Kings. His son Jehoiachin became king in his place.

Judah’s King Jehoiachin

⁹ Jehoiachin was eighteen^[a] years old^(C) when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹⁰ In the spring^[b](D) Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon along with the valuable articles of the Lord’s temple. Then he made Jehoiachin’s brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.^(E)

¹⁴ He also took from the temple in Babylon the gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and carried them to the temple in Babylon.^(A) He released them from the temple in Babylon to a man named Sheshbazzar, the governor by the appointment of King Cyrus.^(B)

¹⁹ For this is what the Lord of Armies says about the pillars, the basin,^[a] the water carts,^(A) and the rest of the articles that still remain in this city, ²⁰ those King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon did not take when he deported Jeconiah^[b] son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon along with all the nobles of Judah^(B) and Jerusalem. ²¹ Yes, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the temple of the Lord, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: ²² ‘They will be taken to Babylon and will remain there until I attend to them again.’^(C) This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.’”^(D)

² Under the influence of^[a] the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels^(A) that his predecessor^[b] Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.