2Ch 36 | ABEn | STEP | And [ 5 took 1 the 2 people 3 of the 4 land] Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and they anointed him, and placed him as king instead of his father in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36

CHAPTER 36 Jehoahaz Reigns in Judah

1 And [⁵took ¹the ²people ³of the ⁴land] Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and they anointed him, and placed him as king instead of his father in Jerusalem. 2 [²was a son ³being ⁴twenty ⁵and ⁶three ⁷years old ¹Jehoahaz] in his taking reign, and three months he reigned in Jerusalem. 3 And [⁴removed ⁵him ¹the ²king ³of Egypt] to not give reign to him in Jerusalem, and put a tribute upon the land of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah

4 And [³placed ¹the king ²of Egypt] Eliakim son of Josiah as king over Judah and Jerusalem, and converted his name to Jehoiakim. And [⁴Jehoahaz ⁵his brother ³took ¹Pharaoh ²Necho], and brought him to Egypt. 5 [²was a son ³being ⁴twenty ⁵and ⁶five ⁷years old ¹Jehoiakim] in his taking reign. And eleven years he reigned in Jerusalem. And he acted wickedly before the lord. 6 And [⁴ascended ⁵against ⁶him ¹Nebuchadnezzar ²king ³of Babylon], and bound him in brass shackles, and took him into Babylon. 7 And part of the items of the house of the lord he carried away unto Babylon, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.

Jehoiachin Reigns in Judah

8 And the rest of the words of Jehoiakim, and all which he did, behold, these are written in the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Israel and of Judah. And [³reigned ¹Jehoiachin ²his son] instead of him. 9 [²was a son ³being eight ⁴years old ¹Jehoiachin] in his taking reign. And three months and ten days he reigned in Jerusalem. And he acted wickedly in the presence of the lord.

Zedekiah Reigns in Judah

10 And at the turn of the year [³sent ¹king ²Nebuchadnezzar] and brought him unto Babylon, with the [²items ¹desirable] of the house of the lord. And [⁴reigned ¹Zedekiah ²the brother ³of his father] over Judah and Jerusalem. 11 [⁵years old ³twenty ⁴one ²was a son being ¹Zedekiah] in his taking reign, and eleven years he reigned in Jerusalem. 12 And he did the wicked thing before the lord his God. And he did not feel shame from in front of Jeremiah the prophet, and from the mouth of the lord, 13 in the [²the things ³with ⁴king ⁵Nebuchadnezzar ¹annulling], in which he bound him by an oath according to God. And he hardened his neck, and [²his heart ¹he strengthened] to not return to the lord God of Israel. 14 And all the honorable men of Judah, and the priests, and the people of the land multiplied to disregard good, to do wickedness according to the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the lord in Jerusalem. 15 And [⁴sent ¹the lord ²God ³of their fathers] to them by the hand of his prophets, ones rising up early, even sending his messengers, for he was sparing his people, and his sanctuary. 16 And they were sneering at his messengers, and treating with contempt his words, and mocking among his prophets, until [⁴ascended ¹the ²rage ³of the lord] among his people until there was no cure.

The Destruction of Jerusalem

17 And he led against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he killed their young men by the broadsword in the house of his sanctuary. And he did not spare the young men. And their virgins he did not show mercy on, and their elders he took away -- whole he delivered up into their hands. 18 And all the items of the house of God, the great and the small, and the treasures of the house of the lord, and all the treasures of the king, and of the great men. The whole he carried unto Babylon. 19 And he burnt the house of the lord, and razed the wall of Jerusalem. And its palaces he burnt by fire, and every [²item ¹beautiful] he appointed for extinction. 20 And he resettled the remaining ones in Babylon. And they were for him and his sons for manservants until the kingdom of the Medes, 21 to fulfill the word of the lord through the mouth of Jeremiah, until [³favorably receives ¹the ²land] its Sabbaths; by observing the Sabbath all the days of its desolation, to observe the Sabbath in the fulfillment [²years ¹of seventy].

The Proclamation of Cyrus

22 [²year ¹In the first] of Cyrus king of the Persians, after the fulfillment of the saying of the lord through the mouth of Jeremiah, the lord awakened the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians. And he exhorted to proclaim in all his kingdom in writing, saying, 23 Thus says Cyrus king of the Persians, to all the kingdoms of the earth, [⁵gave ⁶to me ¹The lord ²God ³of the ⁴heaven]; and he gave charge to me to build to him a house in Jerusalem in Judea. Who is there of you of all his people? The lord his God will be with him -- let him ascend!