4 And he made Eliakim his brother king for him, over Juda and Jerusalem: and he turned his name Joakim: but he took Joachaz himself with him, and carried him away into AEgypt.📜💬📚

Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah

5 Five and twenty years old was Joakim when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before our Lord his God.📜💬📚

6 Against him came up Nabuchodonosor the king of the Chaldees, and brought him bound in chains into Babylon.📜💬📚

7 Whither he transported also the vessels of our Lord, and put them in his temple.📜💬📚

8 But the rest of the words of Joakim, and of his abominations which he wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the Book of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned for him.📜💬📚

Jehoiachin Reigns in Judah

9 Eight years old was Joachin when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of our Lord.📜💬📚

10 And when the compass of a year was come about, Nabuchodonosor the king sent some, that brought him into Babylon, the most precious vessels of the house of our Lord being carried away withal: But he made Sedecias his uncle king over Juda and Jerusalem.📜💬📚

Zedekiah Reigns in Judah

11 One and twenty years old was Sedecias when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.📜💬📚

12 And he did evil in the eyes of our Lord his God, neither did he reverence the face of Jeremy the Prophet speaking to him from the mouth of our Lord.📜💬📚

13 He revolted also from king Nabuchodonosor, who had adjured him by God: & he hardened his neck & his heart, that he would not return to our Lord the God of Israel.📜💬📚

14 Yea and all the chief of the Priests, and the people transgressed unlawfully according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they polluted the house of our Lord, which he had sanctified to him in Jerusalem.📜💬📚

Fall of Jerusalem

15 And our Lord the God of their fathers sent to them by the hand of his messengers rising by night, and daily admonishing them: for that he spared his people and his habitation.📜💬📚

16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and little esteemed his words, and scorned the Prophets, until the fury of our Lord ascended upon his people, and there was no amendment.📜💬📚

17 For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, & slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he pitied not young man, and virgin, and old man, no neither him that stooped for age, but he delivered all into his hands.📜💬📚

18 And all the vessels of the house of our Lord, as well greater as lesser, and the treasures of the temple, and of the king, and the Princes, he transported into Babylon📜💬📚

19 The enemies set fire on the house of God, & destroyed the wall of Jerusalem, all the towers they burnt, and whatsoever was precious, they destroyed.📜💬📚

20 If any man escaped the sword, being led into Babylon he served the king and his sons, till the king of the Persians reigned.📜💬📚

21 That the word of our Lord by the mouth of Jeremy might be accomplished, and the land might celebrate their Sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a Sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.📜💬📚

Proclamation of Cyrus

22 But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfill the word of our Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremy, our Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: who commanded to be proclaimed in all his Kingdom, yea by writing, saying:📜💬📚

23 Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All Kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given me, and he hath commanded me that I should build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Jewry: who of you is there in all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.📜💬📚