2 Kings 24:8-17

Names of God Bible

King Jehoiakin of Judah^(A)

⁸Jehoiakin was 18 years old when he began to rule as king. He was king for three months in Jerusalem. His mother was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem. ⁹Jehoiakin did what Yahweh considered evil, as his father had done.

¹⁰At that time the officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem. (The city was blockaded.) ¹¹King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon arrived while his officers were blockading the city. ¹²King Jehoiakin of Judah, his mother, officials, generals, and eunuchs surrendered to the king of Babylon. In the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon captured Jehoiakin. ¹³He also took away all the treasures in Yahweh’s temple and the royal palace. As Yahweh had predicted, Nebuchadnezzar stripped the gold off all the furnishings that King Solomon of Israel had made for Yahweh’s temple. ¹⁴He captured all Jerusalem, all the generals, all the soldiers (10,000 prisoners), and all the craftsmen and smiths. Only the poorest people of the land were left. ¹⁵He took Jehoiakin to Babylon as a captive. He also took the king’s mother, wives, eunuchs, and the leading citizens of the land from Jerusalem as captives to Babylon. ¹⁶The king of Babylon brought all 7,000 of the prominent landowners, 1,000 craftsmen and smiths, and all the men who could fight in war as captives to Babylon.