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The Captivity of Judah!
II Kings, Chapter 23:
Dave Nettles Gospel Music
The Captivity of Judah!
II Kings, Chapter 23:
Verse
34:
And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah
his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he
came to Egypt, and died there.
35:
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land
to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the
silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his
taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
36:
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the
daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his fathers had done.
II Kings, Chapter 24:
Verse
1:
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his
servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2:
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the
Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and
sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3:
Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them
out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
4:
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with
innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
5:
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
6:
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his
stead.
7:
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king
of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all
that pertained to the king of Egypt.
8:
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of
Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father had done.
10:
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against
Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11:
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants
did besiege it.
12:
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and
his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the
king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13:
And he carried out thence 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.
14:
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty
men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths:
none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
15:
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the
king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he
into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16:
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a
thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of
Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
17:
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his
stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18:
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done.
20:
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah,
until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against
the king of Babylon.
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