2Ki 24:1-2, 5-6, 13-20, Eze 19:5-9, Dan 1:1-2, Hab 1:5-10 | ESV | STEP | In his days , Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up , and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years . Then he turned and rebelled against him.

1 ^aIn his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the ^bChaldeans and ^cbands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, ^daccording to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

2 Kings 24:5-6

5 ^eNow the rest of the deeds 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 ^fslept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 24:13-20

13 and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord ^gand the treasures of the king’s house, ^hand cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, ⁱwhich Solomon king of Israel had made, ^jas the Lord had foretold. 14 ^kHe carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, ^l10,000 captives, ^mand all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, ⁿexcept the poorest people of the land. 15 ^oAnd he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, ^p7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war. 17 ^qAnd the king of Babylon ^rmade Mattaniah, ^sJehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, ^tand changed his name to Zedekiah.

Zedekiah Reigns in Judah

18 ^uZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was ^vHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 19 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^waccording to all that Jehoiakim had done. 20 For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence.

^xAnd Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 19:5-9

5 When she saw that she waited in vain,
that her hope was lost,
^yshe took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
6 He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men,
7 and seized ^{▼▼Hebrew knew} their widows.
He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.
8 ^aaThen the nations set against him
from provinces on every side;
^abthey spread their net over him;
^ache was taken in their pit.
9 With hooks ^adthey put him in a cage ^{▼▼Or in a wooden collar}
and ^afbrought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
on ^agthe mountains of Israel.

Daniel 1:1-2

Daniel Taken to Babylon

1 In the third year of ^ahthe reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of ^aithe vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to ^ajthe land of Shinar, to the house of his god, ^akand placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

Habakkuk 1:5-10

The Lord’s Answer

5 ^al“Look among the nations, and see;
wonder and be astounded.
^amFor I am doing a work in your days
that you would not believe if told.
6 For behold, ^anI am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
^aowho march through the breadth of the earth,
^apto seize dwellings not their own.
7 They are dreaded and fearsome;
^aqtheir justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
8 ^arTheir horses are swifter than leopards,
more fierce than ^asthe evening wolves;
their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
^atthey fly like an eagle swift to devour.
9 They all come ^aufor violence,
all their faces forward.
They gather captives ^avlike sand.
10 At kings they scoff,
and at rulers they laugh.
^awThey laugh at every fortress,
for ^axthey pile up earth and take it.