2 Chronicles 36 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Reign of Jehoahaz

36 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king to succeed his father in Jerusalem.(A)2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. 4 The king of Egypt made his brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed his name to Jehoiakim, but Neco took his brother Jehoahaz and carried him to Egypt.

Reign and Captivity of Jehoiakim

5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.(B)6 Against him King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up and bound him with fetters to take him to Babylon.(C)7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.(D)8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the abominations that he did and what was found against him are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him.(E)

Reign and Captivity of Jehoiachin

9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.(F)10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.(G)

Reign of Zedekiah

11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.(H)12 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before the prophet Jeremiah who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.(I)13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.(J)14 All the leading priests and the people also were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations, and they polluted the house of the Lord that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

The Fall of Jerusalem

15 The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place,(K)16 but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.(L)

17 Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their youths with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or young woman, the aged or the feeble; he gave them all into his hand.(M)18 All the vessels of the house of God, large and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his officials, all these he brought to Babylon.(N)19 They burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.(O)20 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,(P)21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.(Q)

Cyrus Proclaims Liberty for the Exiles

22 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:(R)23 “Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Let any of those among you who are of his people—may the Lord their God be with them!—go up.”(S)

Cross references

  1. 36.1 : 2 Kings 23.30–34; Jer 22.11
  2. 36.5 : 2 Kings 23.36, 37
  3. 36.6 : 2 Kings 24.1; 2 Chr 33.11
  4. 36.7 : 2 Kings 24.13
  5. 36.8 : 2 Kings 24.5; 1 Chr 3.16
  6. 36.9 : 2 Kings 24.8–17
  7. 36.10 : 2 Sam 11.1; Jer 37.1
  8. 36.11 : 2 Kings 24.18–20; Jer 52.1
  9. 36.12 : 2 Chr 33.23; Jer 21.3–7
  10. 36.13 : 2 Kings 17.4; 2 Chr 30.8; Jer 52.3
  11. 36.15 : Jer 25.3, 4; 35.15; 44.4
  12. 36.16 : 2 Chr 30.10; Ezra 5.12; Prov 1.25; Jer 5.12, 13
  13. 36.17 : 2 Kings 25.1–7
  14. 36.18 : 2 Kings 25.13ff
  15. 36.19 : 2 Kings 25.9; Jer 52.13
  16. 36.20 : 2 Kings 25.11; Jer 27.7
  17. 36.21 : Lev 25.4; 26.34; Jer 29.10
  18. 36.22 : Ezra 1.1; Isa 44.28; Jer 25.12
  19. 36.23 : Ezra 1.2, 3

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